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Oddly, I've done this from the bottom up but am stumped by the whole top left & middle

Would some kind person kick-start my feeble brain with the answer to 1 A - Available and willing to halve talks around October, finally (2, 3, 5)
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Thanks in advance

Up for gabs - willing to have talks around R - end of October - up for grabs - available?

Ab, thanks.

I'm not sure I'd ever have got that!