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Hello Seamus. Stuck in top left hand corner
1(a) Cockney's narcotic knots guts (7). E?????S
2(d) Copper boxes educational facility gets from ancient city (5)
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3 (d) I think is idiot but no idea why. Mug I found under papers on book (5).
Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you

Help in parsing my last one appreciated
65a Crack in plastic knight figure p?l?g?n
Figure must be polygon I think, but don't get the rest of the clue.

I think it must be "poly" for plastic (but it should be "polymer"), then "go" = "crack" (have a go/crack at), then N for knight in chess notration.

Poor clue!

gravitas
ID - papers, I, OT - Old testament or "book" ("books" more correctly)

I'm glad I'm not doing this one!

Thanks Chrise - thought of polythene or similar, but didn't see the GO. Do now.

1a (h)emp ties

2d p uni c

Thank you. Much appreciated ChrisE

Thank you. Much appreciated Norrier.

Norrier, poly is informal short for polythene, so your parsing is spot on, supported by both Chambers and Collins. Think eg poly bags.

OT is clued by books in the printed version, as it is a collection of books.