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4,3,6,8

I have ----/the/queens//h///ing

Queens is a guess

I am also stuck on 24 down (15 letters). The clue is: Callixenus comprehends his limits age wise.

Thank you all very much for your help.

Take the queens shilling?

(Old phrase for join the army)

quinquagenarian !

Andy - apart from the Roman link I don’t see how to parse that. Can you please enlighten?

It was a guess at age ... 50. I have since found this though:

Answer: QUINQUAGENARIAN, which describes someone in their fifties (i.e. “age wise”). I know the word (it’s one of my favourites – yes, I’m weird) but not having had hundreds of thousands of pounds lavished on my education, I’m left guessing the solution is something that can be broken down into a Latin phrase befitting the clue, something like QUIN-QUA-GENERI-AN. Google Translate has this as “without the degree or”, so, er… perhaps not.

Hope this helps. :-)

Err..... thanks?!

Got it I think : the l and lix in Callixenus represent 50-59.

Might it not more simply be Ca)llix(us contains L+ LiX: in Roman numerals 50 & 59 the limits of the answer.

Bloody predictive text, however, I see you now also have the parsing.

Yes, but only just thanks Ginge.