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Would appreciate help with 4 down:

Loudly announce hake is off, maybe to disadvantage oneself (3, 8, 4)

Have C?Y ?T?N?I?G ?I?H

Many thanks

Enigma

Cry Stinking Fish!

... Cry = Loudly announce
Stinking = Is off
Fish - Hake.

Cry Stinking Fish - 'to decry one's own goods'. (Chambers).

I also am stuck on one remaining :

50D - Congregation getting on fine at first (4)
F?L?

I cannot make sense of any possible answer......

F(ine) old (getting on)

fold = congregation (def)
f - f (ine)
old- getting on

Cry stinking fish—a Billingsgate curse perhaps? More a Spitafields man meself! Thank everybody for your contributions;

Enigma

Elle,

Thanks. I completely missed the connection between "getting on" & "old" : I must be getting....well, something or other.

I can retire with a quiet mind.

Glad to help, Bear!

Enigma, glad I could help.

Scorpiojo, nice to see you (your cloak didn't fool me).