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After spending some hours on this and, with the help of everyone on this thread, I am still stuck on several clues and am about to give up. I have 21 of the 29 letters of the instruction, I have the three-word description (I think!) and the theme plus almost all of the answers to the across clues but I am stumped on some of the down clues which I'm annoyed about. Any help with the following will be gratefully received.

27d: Privileged inmate out of practice (6). I reckon the 1st letter is N,S or T.

26d: Aromatic medicine ground following game (6). I have N, S or T for the 1st letter.

32d: King of Israel in a dwelling without international hempen matting (4). I have I, M or O for the 1st letter (maybe A, too...)

The wordplay either omits a letter of the answer or leads to the answer with an extra letter not entered in the grid.

Thanks in anticipation!

27 Trusty - privileged inmate. T +Rusty, out of practice.

Can I get some help? The only clue I haven't solved is 42A: Wildcat force (3). I suspect there is an extra or omitted letter in the wordplay.

My other problem is that I have only 27 of the 29 omitted/extra letters; obviously I have missed one somewhere. The parts of the message I have make sense except for two letters -- one occurring 42A and one after.

The last bit should be "one occurring before 42A and one after".

Thank you malone. I assumed (wrongly) that it was a word for 'inmate' around a word for 'practice'.

Jaye, Bradford gives LIN as a force but no dictionary has it that I've tried. So I think LI(O)N.

I am missing two letters for the message as my middle bit doesn't make sense. I have A ... O ... GULES ... I ... TOP

Jaye, a force is a waterfall, LI(O)N. And Hur is a friend of Moses

Jaye -

In my limited capacity I'll try and help with 42a - I reckon it's LIN (wildcat = LION minus the O leaves another name for a waterfall - a force). I'm not 100% sure about it, though lol!

Gazzar, 32d begins with A. Think Moby-Dick.

LIN is in Chambers, as an alternative of LINN. 40ac is (T)RY, Ray as in railway line