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Thanks Malone, thought had messed up somewhere, see the word now. Many thanks

Glad I could help, Bubber. I had a quick look at my now rather tatty grid and couldn't where the letters you gave might eb!

Realise error now, had orientation wrong. (Not my strong point.) Saw the correct word too but disregarded it.

I have only 10 of the letters that go towards the name for the top box. I know I need two Ns but I only have one.

I also have 10 rather than 9 missing letters, but none of them can be converted into the required N.

Am I the only one thinking that identifying the route is a bit much to ask? My starting point would be an F, with the next logical point being an R ... yet there's an S which is certainly a missing letter in the opposite quadrant of the grid.

It's all just over-egged, IMO.

I agree Ionacarr, it is over-egged, but you can identify the route because the 9 missing letters in route order spell out its name. There is no S.

Thank you kobnut. That didn't occur to me at all! I see now that I was wrong to think that 'in no way' indicated 'not'. But it doesn't give me the extra N that I need.

ionacarr - You were looking for both Ns earlier - I hope the one you've found doesn't come from the 'patent medicine' (reading 'no' as zero=0) because this is a straight clue.

One of the two Ns is a bit of a cheat - 'an' is a word in the clue itself (and it would work as a straight clue) the 'n' is dropped.
The other has the anagram indicator 'in' = 'drunk' and the 'n' is additional to the anagram.

sorry ionacarr - I misread your post.

Looks like I've made a hash of the clue with the anagram - 'in' doesn't appear to mean 'drunk' after all (I thought it was a shortening of 'in ones cups'). But something has to work as an indicator.
Perhaps there's another way the clue works, I spent a while looking at the 3 letter abbreviation for the first word before opting for S + the anagram. Any ideas?

Well, that left only one word to check and 'unintelligible' works ok as an anagrind. That was well concealed!