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StrangelyBrown, Att = attorney is in Chambers (as is Atty). Then we have Une, a French/a in French and D, degree initially.

37 Aquanaut

A in clue
Quant, financial analyst.
Au, gold.

'Snaffled by' , the gold goes inside.

Thanks for the replies. Anyone got any thoughts on the OPs query of 15d which puzzles me as well:

Curiously, not the opposite of “here and now” (5,3,4)

It looks like THERE AND THEN (the opposite of HERE AND NOW), but that doesn’t mean “curiously”. Am I missing something obvious?

Isn't There And Then the same as Here And Now? The 'there' is the opposite of 'here', the 'then' is an opposite of 'now', but oddly, curiously, as phrases they both mean the same.

Thanks, malone - that does make some sort of sense, I suppose. But the construction of the clue seems to defy the normal rules (definition at beginning or end; remainder of clue made up of the various elements of the answer; a question mark added at the end if some elements are being used more than once, or if extra thought is required). Would the clue be less confusing if it had a question mark at the end?

TheMad… yes. it is a slightly odd clue . The whole of it is the definition, so it hasn't broken any rules/conventions. Maybe a question mark would have helped, but those sometimes lead to me looking for more than there actually is in a clue!