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stuck on 3.
39a, Leave to introduce priest, an old stager. (8)
-O-G---E

20d, Be worse than child killer-not unknown for you to get flogging. (3-5)
O-T -E-O-

28d, Magicians son admitted to appropriate circle (8)
-R-S---)

sorry, -R-S---O

Congreve
Prospero

cheers Chiff. No ideas on the other one?

Ideas exhausted. Still need this to complete.

The other one is OUT HEROD

It comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet and means to outdo.

YOU without the "unknown" (y) is OU and a flogging is THE ROD - put together gives the answer

thanks Brackendale, would never have got that one.