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Brendan, yes to the theme. 31d is 8 letters before modification. The horizontal unclued is important.

Hi Malone, I'm a hard man to follow at the best of times:-)

Yes, Column 1.

Ah, I had 'lineal' but now think I was "nearly" right wink wink:-)

... but with 'left' to succeed "imoster' at last.

Thanks, ozzy, for your desardining help. Much appreciated.

Full grid, more or less done I think, but only have half the message, the first four words.
Help with 38a and 7d parsing would be nice.

38 3 letter archaic brood, 1 letter black, 3 letter on each side

7 double def, Soho extra

The message is a very long winded way of telling you to do what you obviously need to do to the center shaded block.

Yes I've already done the obvious!
'Property' = the solution for 7d?
All = on each side?
How come?

Hi Lumen,

7d - It's a very common word. If you look at the second lot of options in Chambers and then the 14th definition under noun you'll see the "profit derived from property"

Yes to "all"

Think tennis, lumen, 15 all = 15 for each player.