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No problems or queries - just a post to bump down the relationship nonsense that's clogging up the place!

This was a good, relatively straightforward puzzle. I enjoyed it.

Help on 8d and 35a to start with.

A farm vehicle very good in lifting fragments from pit (7)

Loudly exaltations are met in fiery trials (7)

Thanks.

You haven't mentioned the 'misprints in definitions' - that will help those without a copy!
8D. Put together A, in clue, a four-letter farm vehicle, and a short word meaning 'very good'. Lifting = reverse, it's a Down clue. The misprint is at the end of the clue.

35 A. The misprint is in the first word. The answer is an anagram of 'trials' and another letter, from 'are'.

Thanks malone.

I have 1a and 2d but do not know the misprints.

I assume it is the second five letter word in 1a. But cannot figure out a word for fanfare.
In 2d, it is the first word but cannot find any word that matches the answer.

bump

I got 1a. Had to consult TCD.

2d is a person's surname, sunray, so not in any dictionary. I can't find a defn in Chambers to explain 1a.

orson:
The 1a answer has a meaning nonsense or nuisance.
the misprint word in the clue when changed means rubbish or drivel.
FromTCD.

So what is the corrected letter in 2d?

N is the corrected letter, Sunray.

An m becomes an n to describe the occupation of a rather obscure practitioner, taking the first letters of the last four words.