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Brilliant!

Thank you, everyone. That will provide some letters for further puzzling.

Am in the middle of a VERY BORING task - clearing out the office - so I needed to give myself a reward. The reward was: when I've done X hours of paper chucking, I am allowed to check the Forum to see right answers to weekend crossword.

It worked. Crosswords are that addictive.

I haven't solved 42down, the Russian poet BTW but I have:

A/H/A/O/A
Alias entered into by queen to see a Russian poet.

Akhmatova (Anna): H.M (Her Majesty) in a.k.a. (also known as, alias) + to + v (vide: see) + a

Thank you. I got the AKA but hm for Queen is a new one for me, as is vide for see. So that's been very helpful.