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Apologies if these queries have been answered already, but I couldn't find any mention of them on here.

42a: Creating a range of reversals initially with film run backwards (8). The letters I have are O - O - E - I - .

24a: Note sent over about tea being cool is not to this one's taste (7). The answer I have is HOTHEAD. I can parse most of it (TEA in DOH reversed), but I can't figure out where the extra H comes from.

41d: We left marks around pine tree (5,3). The answer I have is WITCH ELM - but am I alone in thinking this spelling is incorrect? I've only ever seen it spelled WYCH.

All help gratefully received!

Orogenic

Thank you. Sorry to sound dense, but please can you explain the parsing?

41 witch elm is a variant spelling of Wych
We L M(arks) around pine (itch)

24 Thea is a type of tea plant - reverse doh around it

Thank you chrisg - that's very helpful.

Can anyone explain the reasoning behind OROGENIC? I can see "CINE" reversed, but what about the rest of it?

OR are the initials of Of Reversals, so I suppose GO is "run"? Not convinced.

Neither am I. But thank you!

Go - flee - run, are synonyms of go