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Unclued. Presumably meant to be Mon(day) 1st [day of the week], Wed(nesday) 3rd... but in that case flawed, because Monday is properly the second and Wednesday the fourth day of the week!

Thanks both of you. I was thinking laterally enough!

Iona, in 16 the extra word is sea.

Ionacarr, I presumeyou meant 23 down

Spare word is "changing". Clue is one of those compound anagrams. Take the letters of Simon out of jumbled TIMELOANS and you are left with a four letter jumble of the entry defined by "after the due date"

Ionacarr. Extra word in 23 is changing and the answer is a jumble of the letters of time loans minus the letters of Simon. Sea is the extra word in 16d.

Ionacarr

In 16Dn "sea" is the spare word. Reverse a 3 letter word for "feel sorry about" (French street) + a 4 letter vehicle (horse and..)

Thanks unclued and turast. Yes 23dn, of course - I had 19ac as a mystery until I realised how 'fringes for example' worked. There are some very convoluted clues in this puzzle, although when you work them out (or see how other people have worked them out) they are entirely fair.

Ignore my comment at #46. I was stupidly forgetting a crucial aspect of the game.

Any help with the following clue would be very welcome. It is 24 down; one of the overlapping clues and begins with w as the word is a non-grid entry:-

24d. Religious adherent’s eagerness to Close pub up, any number inside drinking

Also I cannot parse the following three clues:-

14a ‘Piece’ of skirt’ is silent in tense talk

21 Western folk like films such as The Big Heat, without the Ford drama

25d Claim everything irrational - alpha’s omega, for a start

24d w inn ing