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… or cries for help, or shouts of joy and admiration, who knows?

Thanks malone.
Usually I start the Listener late. Most of the times I read shouts of joy.

So let me start with cries for help.

The clue may have spare word. Some clues are two clues overlapping,
One answer is for grid entry, the over;lapping part is the definition of the other.

1d. Loser’s lost eighty-one bucks to dramatist (6)

8d. UK lab hires tumble drier (7)

42a. Film about bodyguard and leading character in
love, with abrupt abstraction after a while (8)

Thanks.

Hi Sunray, I don't have the puzzle, but I think with 8d, 'lab' is the spare word, and it's an anagram.

Hi sunray,
1d [eighty-one], again now a straightforward anagram.
42a is one of the 6 "double" overlapping clues.

Completed except for pesky spare word in 2 down. It must begin with an s. Can anyone help please? I can't move, as it were without knowing its last letter.

Hi tonynannini, I have 2d as one of the "double" overlapping clues.

Yes Ginge. I have the entry but can't work out the other word.

The other word is a 5-letter word S???E
Do you have the other word in 42a? (M???????)

Hi again tonynannini, it's not a spare word but part of the final instruction. As you've solved the grid entry "part" it should be clear the overlapping word is "lower", therefore also a 5 letter synonym of Tone beginning S !

Yes, Bananabean. Start with the usual 4 letter word for film then a 2 letter word for about The bodyguard is a 2 letter German abbreviation