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Two clued entries, taken together, go '...…...' third word of the show, ie they get anagrammed - and give the first two words. If you treat it as a word search, and start at the beginning, it won't take long!

Sunray, for 36 A, it's just an anagram of NE, North East, Geordie (very British reference, sorry!) and Het, in the clue.

Hello Sunray

I have put in ETHNE - anagram of het and NE (North East of England - where Geordies, a nickname, live)

this may be wrong though

Malone - apologies - you posted while I was typing mine. Thanks for the confirmation though

Thanks jigjag and malone.
Did not know what Geordie in wordplay meant.
Eshne is a little fire.

Glad we could help, Sunray. 'Geordie' crops up fairly often in UK puzzles.

Jigjag, it's fine - two answers/two heads are better than one!

Sunray, the prize is a trophy but if you don't follow our TV programming you are either unlucky (for finishing this puzzle) or lucky (for reasons that would enrage keen fans if I spelt them out)!

My only problem is the parsing of 9dn. The answer is obvious, and there's a treaty with a similar name, but how exactly does the clue work? Just a niggle.

Hi saoralba, row = set to > see to; European: e replacing t: one treaty at first [t(reaty) but only once].

Thanks ginge - I was fixated on SEATO. Should have learned by now that this always ends badly.

Good evening, have read all the posts but am my usual confused self. Have the theme, have the 4 inquisitors, 3 down clues and the one to be highlighted (cannot work out which clue that pertains to) but despite the helpful posts am still still swimming in mud as to the two clues, is 30d involved? As to the 'prize', have all but the 4th (or 6th) letter of the first word & the first of the second. Fail to parse the 1d but have the same answer as 'the gang' so have given up caring. However, am tearing my hair out over the last few clues........HELP! 20a Money twice over (6) ?oo??o.
27a Ed's feared Bill facing study (5) Want to put ACNED but can't see why and is it Ethne or Eshne, both seem plausible. 22d would seem to be the obvious minus an R but all the poisons have a different 'back-end'. Am frustrated and confused having got so far and am now totally confused.
Sorry about the ramble! Have keyboard will witter.....