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Hi Gitto, I haven't completed this yet but...

33a - Is an anagram with the letters from a word in the clue plus the usual letter for "troy" removed - definition is a poetic word for "lands" (attached to a parish church)

Sorry Gitto, I should clarify that, although one definition of the answer is poetic, in this case it is not.

I spent four hours yesterday afternoon on this rascal and am tantalisingly close to a breakthrough.

Would it be giving too much away to ask if the wordplay to the altered set of answers leads to the entry or to the solution?

BC, the wordplay leads to the solution.

Thanks for 33a brendan - but I do not see how It is an anagram. Maybe I am being thick. The fact that I have only 8 clashes and forcing another doesn't seem possible.

My previous post should have read

Thanks for 33a brendan - but I do not see how It is an anagram. Maybe I am being thick. The fact that I have only 8 clashes and forcing another doesn't seem possible is worrying me.

Thanks, mattrom. That's a huge help.

Iratus @28, I have come to the same conclusion, but that would be extremely unusual for a Listener puzzle. Maybe the typist had one G&T too many.

Gitto, it is an anagram of three words totalling 12 letters after first removing a word of five letters and the usual abbreviation for Troy.

Thanks Ukridge, I see it now. Another clever and difficult clue, which abound in this puzzle.