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Help! I am totally flummoxed by this one, have spent hours and have only managed 2 answers and the preamble is reducing me to tears, I can make no sense of the blanks/shading/numbers or the statement "Numbers in brackets give cells available" major push in some direction needed. Thank you.

Sorry I can't help you, Manic Mary, as I too have spent hours and only got 3 Answers!
Can anyone give a hint for:
1D Go faster driven by earlier stoppage.(6)
20D Press after flaw to silky fabric. (7)
There is an extra letter in each clue.

Any help will be most gratefully received !
Thanks.

I have solved 6. But not 1d or 20d.
Finding extra letters is tough.

10d has 5 cells in the grid but the clue says 6.
Am I missing something?
I have two of the 5 letters but no answer to plankton yet.

perhaps one letter goes in the space at the bottom?

only just starting out so nothing got so far!!!

great made a start now ... have 27d!

Am still going cross-eyed at this devilish xword but am cheered that I am not to only one having problems, not that I am any further forward and my two answers aren't the ones requesting help....sorry!

Is it possible that 1d is OUTRUN? The problem is that OUT isn't defined in BRB as 'stoppage', but perhaps Collins has it as a colloquial term? Then RUN could be either 'drive' or 'driven', but my hunch would be that N is the extra letter.

I can't see what we are meant to be doing at all!

samovar, 20d.
L is extra. 4 letter word for faw plus three letter for press.
Gives you fabric.

I'm nowhere near finished with this one, but I think 1 D is Holdup, stoppage. The Hup = go faster and it's Riven by (dropping the D) Old, earlier.

Mary,
The best thing to do is to solve the clue on their own and input it. The cross letters at times help get other answers.

27 d for example is hidden answer for vinegar.