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Def 'the masses'. 5 letter word meaning 'boasts' around d(erring-do.)

28a is a word meaning to brag or boast (think of a bird) around the letter D.

I am struggling with 36a part two any help please?

Yes, as above, and the answer isn't fishy.

36 Remove 'lid' from 'cylinders' and anagram

36 yes as above. Answer is an archaism, in a Spenserian spelling.

Thanks Jalo, Scorpiojo, Polly1 and Rogissimo. I had a completely wrong word, which Roy Keane would have disapproved of.

Sure have struggled with this one - not alone it seems. Several answers I've never heard of but am now happy with.
However I would appreciate help with:

54ac Leaves unfold on 60% of roses, fenced off (9)

I have F?O?D?S?E - thanks in advance.

Ah - got it! Needed a word-search, thought the 60% referred to more than it did.

Wow, I am in the rare position (for me) of actually being able to give help rather than ask for it. The whole is a verb meaning to unfold leaves and is an anagram of 'fenced' and the first 60% of 'roses'. And while I'm here, my anagram solver (Wordsolver.net) can't find an anagram for cylinders with 'lid' missing. Anyone got a better anagram solver I can use?

I don't know of any anagram solvers that would find this, it is pretty obscure. I found this one by guessing what it could be then searching that with Edmund Spenser. You will find the answer in his most famous poem.