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Can anyone help with the parsing for these....

2d. What's set to shake recording angel, involving one dirty cloud (11) - SEISMOGRAPH (What's set to shake)

3d. Who'll look after nipper and tend it's wound? (7) - DENTIST (Do we 'wound' our teeth?)

27a. Groups at the back of Afghanistan and it's capital city (8) - ISTANBUL (Capital city) I can see (k)ABUL but not much else.

37a. Change for one old person's other half (5,3) - ALTER EGO (Other half) I've tried changing 'I' (one) for 'O' (Old) but to no avail.

31d. Apparently, nothing but repeats shown by typical terrestrial TV? (12) - ALLITERATION (As shown by T(ypical) T(errestrial) T(V)) Why 'Apparently nothing'?

Loop wanting work to capture farm animal? (5) - LASSO (Loop)

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40a. Rules needed for scoring team? (5) - STAFF (I think)

2 seraph + smog + i

3 anagram of tend it's

Ok - I've got 27a. It's afghanISTAN + kaBUL

wound = anagram indicator

37 change = alter, for one = eg + o = old

. Apparently, nothing but repeats - All Iteration

Hi Brendan.

Nothing but repeats is a Def of Alliteration meaning all first letters are repeated

Loop wanting work = lo(op) containing ass