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11ac is baffling me. I have the non-entered answer but cannot reconcile either of the possible grid entries for the other half of the clue. I feel that it must be OVERSEEN or OVERSMEN but I cannot parse either or see a definition. Have I gone wrong somewhere?

overseen..oversee(r) superior officer brief + n (noon)
defn ...RUN?

That was the only sense I could make of it as well. Weak as the oversee bit is effectively the same word in both the word play and the definition - you might as well say managed to manage before noon. But understandable given the trickiness of putting the double clues together.

Thank you Scarlett and Smellyharry. I am sure that you are both correct but what a poor clue! I still find the definition "RUN" as totally inadequate. A past tense and meaning "overseen"??

Must move on!

I think the deffo is ok - the project was (run / overseen) by Gladys.

I’m late to the party with this one. All completed, but would be grateful for help with parsing on a few.

20a Sometime [erratic] mount steps out of line (4). It’s an old word for ‘mount’, but why steps out of line?

39a Amidst revolutionary speech, Sir Godfrey [sounded] like a monster (6). Revolutionary is backwards? SIRG, but what about the OH?

29d More than one basket case regularly checks [IMDb] film length (6). Means ‘more than film length, then is it just CaSe around (“checks”?) a length of film?

35d Sticky stuff upset beast as circles of Hell clearly show at the top (5). I’m happy with the second half to give the no-grid word. For the first half, sticky stuff defines. Upset beast is UNG. How does ‘as circles’ fit?

Thanks in advance! I’m getting back to it after about 5 months off...

39a speecH SIR GOd

29d yes reel inside c s

eg synonym AS ..so gnu inside eg ..all upset

Sti(l)e