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Prospero, I can’t quite decipher you’re Cambridge and Shropshire references , but like Malone I also had to work from a list.

Aah... google ta first gave me a list that included Fitzwilliam and Wedlock. Now I have the two real unfortunates ...

Prospero, I looked up the Cambridge colleges and saw that wasn't getting me anywhere. My 'research' was much more simple... and rewarding!

Prospero, sorry for getting your name wrong, blame my fat fingers.
PS I looked up the colleges only after you'd mentioned them, just in case a little nudge might have been all that was needed.

Sorry to say I need a bit of hand-holding on this one.

3D: short walker about to mince briefly in stages (6)
Are we going with PED as the short walker, ie the answer ends in ‘D’?

16A: measure between sets of factories - it’s extremely close (7)
N_AR_ST
There can only be one answer - it’s the plural, ‘sets’, stopping me from fully understanding parsing, I think.

8D: Scottish corporations’ rumours to test public opinion (5)
KI_E_
Now this one I don’t understand. I’d be really grateful for a hint.

Hi Jwf,
3d. Yes, Ped is given in Chambers as an accepted abbreviation for the 10 letter word.

16a. 3 letter measure (of an area of land) inside a word for what Chambers calls “a set of buildings, eg factories, divided into blocks and units”.

8d. A Scots word for a paunch or belly and what politicians might fly.

[ My post @8 was in response to an earlier post which was deleted… just in case anyone thinks I’m going mad! ]

Thanks Jono.

ery njoyable ....

Please can anyine explain 18a? I have six of the seven who all suffered the same fate but the last one doesn't seem to be there!