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Missing the fist letter of 13d

The 'essentially emphatic' bit should resolve that...you've got half already!

Durrr

Woodlouse, I thought you'd kick yourself! Glad that little nudge was enough.

Still totally lost. I have a full grid, the creature, I've read the posts, but have no idea about how to find the 'strands' to highlight or how they may relate to the creature. Is this about fish or 'sport'? I do dislike this kind of crossword where the endgame is more 'guess what I'm thinking' than true analysis

Hi tjc, you're looking for 2 potential predators cryptically given by the golfing terms relating to -2 & -3 as given earlier by kilgore trout.

Hi TJC, I too wondered what the connection was, so googled the sport and the creature and got to a tournament, the "X Run" tournament, where X is the creature we write under the grid. Whether that's relevant or not, I dunno.

Thanks jazzlover42 and ginge, that clears it up! My view of the 'sport' is that attributed apocryphally to Mark Twain, so I would never have connected the two themes myself!

Can anyone help me with 26a, please? I have everything else, and the endgame, but means I’m missing a letter. Half a plastic envelope that in France becomes a flowing gown (3). By my reckoning it will actually be a 6-letter solution. I have _AC.

The six-letter 'dress' has a French word for 'that', following the ?ac. The 'envelope' was a six-letter word too, you've been left with the first three letters of it. The envelope sometimes contained bath salts... (I found it hard to think of extra clues, sorry!)