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What about 'painstaking' for a GGGreat ending??

no matter how hard i try I cannot vome up with an answer to no 72 can any one help me with this as it is my last one to solve( i hope)

Anagram of A SAIL gives you ailsa
work from there

Well done maieve re 36.
I was surprised there was no 'use' of another clue which there normally is - but I've never wbeen very good at square roots!

thank you nonplussed all finished now

While I was looking for #17, which I've now found, I came across an anagram for merry + search - cream sherry. I'm taking this as an encouragement to pour a glass to help with my last three, which everyone else seems to have got: #9 (have looked for synonyms of painstaking and words starting with st followed by synonym of passenger, without success, #24 and #35.

Hi calliewag
9. The answer is another word for a road
24. A city of 3 letters is in the middle of the answer
35, .An anagram of 4 words in the clue gives you the answer of 2 words both beginning with G

Thank you, Anotheray. I'd been thinking about books for 35, but although I know of the work I've never read it so didn't recognise the reference. And have found 9 thanks to Bradford. Will give some thought to the last one tomorrow when my brain's in gear.

Got it!! counted my answers and realised what it had to end in, and light finally dawned.Thanks again.

Appreciate any clues for the following:-

26) Church Times is ordered by scientist (7)
28) Maybe leap to defence, initially, of the young creature (7)
32) Vehicle for thespian after tour, disheartened (7)