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Is it me, or is this week's harder than average?

But for several answers above I'd scarcely have any. Of course my brain may have deteriorated after two days at the Great British Beer Festival but not, I would have thought, to quite this extent.

I may well be back as I haven't even got the first two across yet!

I thought I might be back, though I am now only stumped on 8 - when I last posted it was 28

I'm quite baffled by :
31D - One got in frightful rage without right earth (8)
G?R?E?E

Assistance with this next may crack the bottom right corner :
49A - Impossible to meet girl come across in legend (12)
?N???O?D????

31 I have gardener but not complete parsing

49 A. Unaffordable (Una+ford, with fable built in).

31 D. I had Gardener - tough I couldn't/can't parse it!

49 ac I think it's UNAFFORDABLE

31dn GARDENER

31
rage (without= outside) R (right) den (earth)

Thanks to Jazzgirl, Malone & Torquinian.

I'm mightily relieved I'm not the only one who can't parse 31D.

Meanwhile further wrestling has reduced the problems to 3 :
36A - Element of the unknown, letters added to American concerns (4)
B???
42A - Composition of a number's backed with cheers (6)
?O?A?? (Pres SONATA but can't see why) &
37D - The spirit of economy when it comes to map purchasing (10)
????T?E?S?

42 sonata
A No.(number) + Tas (plural of Ta (cheers)

36 Zinc (Z+Inc (American concerns, companies use this)
37. Chartreuse, spirit. (Chart re-use).

42 correction
Sonata
A No's + Ta