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I am only halfway through this, so can't help - maybe later (don't hold your breath, this look tough!).

Hi nelson, I am not sure if you are asking for a hint or not. I wouldn't want to give the whole phrase away so soon but if there is any particular bit you would like help with let me know.

39 could be (s)-partan(Scots for a crab)

Thanks,ixion - the letters in 39 A finished up as
ital?an, so it was Italian.

many thanks Nick.
wouldn't mind some help with the word/s after the word that begins with G.

'OF ????' - word very similar to second word in phrase. (The extra F in 32d took me ages to see because the clue also seems to work using first letters of words!)

Thanks again Nick

Hi Nick,
I thought the answer to 32d was the initial letters of the four words, followed by a word meaning 'excited'
What is the correct explanation?

At first I thought it worked like that too ‘…at the outset Mode Of Vanadium Electron…’ using all first letters, but it doesn’t it is ‘…at the outset Mode…’ (just for that first letter) + O[F] + V + E (abbreviations of Vanadium and Electron). I think that it is unfortunate that it seems to work both ways but then again ‘at the outset’ may not be an acceptable first letter indicator for more than one word.

Brilliant. I just couldn't see where the extra letter would come from.