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I'm really struggling with this perhaps if someone could provide me with the answer to 50 across I might be able to push on.
Seize the chance to linger canal-side? Without warning of course.
(4,4,2,3,8) ????/????/??/???/???e?o?k

Take Time By The Forelock - an old saying (that I've never heard of!)

Take Time, linger, By The Lock, canal-side.
Take Time By The Forelock has Fore, warning, inside.

I should have said, the saying must mean 'Seize the chance'.

Thanks again Malone the setter has really went for the obscure, I've never heard that expression.

Ftsalmon, you're welcome. I've just checked Chambers and the phrase is in there. I don't think I'll be using it any time soon!

You have my sympathy ftsalmon, I thought this was dreadful. The clue you highlight is typical - the answer being a phrase that literally no one ever uses.
I gave up having completed about a quarter of the puzzle.