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Just a word of cheer to everybody trying it: when you get the long one everything else will just drop into place!
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Greedy.

:-)

Thanks , but I can't get the long one .

hi gk and cosmo, I have searched until I am grouchy for the quotation . a little help would be appreciated.

It's better known as a (very ambiguous) song title!

Btw: Can anyone explain to me why 9a is what it obviously is? Where's the "solver"? Don't want to give it away: question for insiders!

an Inspector/detective.
i hate long clues and couldn't be bothered to parse this one properly but some other clues were inspired.

gk, I think it is a cubic puzzle, fits with 1d (I think) and leaves 3d as ? ? k ? m (i think). " long quote still eludes me "if i ???? you ??? a etc"

Aha! Ian Rankin! Thanks, Trevor!
3d goes A?S?M
If you Google the first few words you'll get the rest; if you can't do that, it was a title that used a simple expression to make s'thing with "body" sound sexy!

Just got the long one after some struggling! Hope the rest really does fall into place or I'll be here all day...