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Thanks for that. I knew it was unlikely to be English given the letters from the across answers.

Many thanks.

But I don't know the French "for fit of the giggles". It's one of my last ones. Is 16ac, 41ac Despot? If so, why? I found the rest very easy, but had to check out the characters on google.
I enjoyed it.

Ah ha. Now I've got 16ac41ac. It was my last character!

One to go - can anyone help me with 19 down?
-o-r-d/ o- / --d-r-e- ? Board of somethings???

Hi. You may well have got it by now, but yes - I've got 'board of' and it's an anagram of 'bandleader from o'.

Let me know if you need more pointers.

Re previous posts: I've enjoyed this one! I often have to look things up - I just have different spheres of reference from the setters!

...I mean 'pointers to the clue you asked about' .