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renaissance figure reaches endgame with US subject(8)
??l?m?t?
drinking group gets rest to set broken foot(8)
?????e?t

think second one could be anapaest

Are these from the toughest crossword ever, the one featured in many of yesterday's papers?

2. Beerfest?

yes its been solved by a lot of people I think.i've got 5 left to do.
think anapaest may be right as a nap has AA AND SET, WHICH MAKES UP THE WORD.
still stuck on the other which is now p?l?m?t?.
Looks like polomate

polymath?
is a renaissance figure, and math is a US subject (maths over here, of course!). Don't see the "poly", though...

(mono) poly math ?

Thanks Chrise and jazzgirl. I couldn't get my head away from thinking the last 4 were MATE as in endgame.
46a Rarest natural thing in a situation outside (8)
I have A???T?N?
Also presume 36a is Fricassee. Borderless land with musical backing gets an F say. Can see (A) frica but don't understand the rest

Astatine - A State round In

Fricative - (A)Fric)a + Evita ,back

Interesting hoopla over this 'hardest' xwd . Certainly got me using all the aids available and making comparisons between them. Indebted to the above for the last few jogs in the right direction . Can't quite get my LOI 21A ; my brain wants it to be either Sepsis or Sepsin but can't for the life of me see how

21 Siphon


SI (Measuring system) + Phon(e)