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I've finally got 30d and 25 of the 29 letters. What I have seems also to be pretty archaic stuff - would that be correct?

The final step and the description is unambiguous BUT I clearly have a problem with 41a, where I thought the letter was D, but it has to be T. I will need to revisit this.

41a is a normal clue.

Planks, some of the instruction is what you might call archaic, but the words are heraldic rather than archaic.

Foinaven, I should have added that T comes from the previous clue.

Yes, I have sorted this out now. I was not happy with the answer to 41, but it did satisfy the wordplay beautifully! And it fitted into the grid perfectly, but then the instruction did not work.

Thanks Dryden, I've worked out the endgame by using what I can understand from the 29 letters, the patterns of letters in the grid and the title. I shall have to wait for the solution to unravel the rest of the extra letters.

Actually, I've just got it! My thanks to those who have pointed me in the right direction.

Thanks for helpful discussions as always. Making progress. Stuck on the significance of the title and the third word in description. Any hints please?

Quite clever of the setter to segment the grid in this way, and consequently some nice words needed to be used on the right of the puzzle. I assume that the title is simply to indicate what the reverse of the pattern would be. Though I've finished, I can't see how I should get O out of 19A. I have JUST about RI, which to my mind needs an extra S to make law students plural. And the only way I can make 10D work is if I use SUS for awareness. But I don't think that is accurate at all...

fgsltw, if you google the 1st word of description, accompanied by the 3 colours, you'll find a site which gives all the possibilities. One 6-letter nation stands out. As I said just a moment ago, I think the title is just what it would have been had the grid been the other way round.