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As suspected - completely wrong, sorry:-(

Brendan, stranger things have happened - stranger things have been posted here! (And I mean by all of us).

Thanks Malone but it's my own fault. I'm trying to do too many things at once - I'm doing the EV, re-stringing my acoustic and....well, actually, that's it - but I never was any good at multi tasking:-)

Thank you Malone xx

Thank you Brendan xxx

Glad we could help, fififun.

26a was a Provost in Cambridge giving orders? (8)

I have the answer as Rankings.....but can you help me parse it please!!!

Kings is a college, part of the university of Cambridge. I assume the head of it is called a Provost - so Rankings/ Ran Kings, orders.

It seems doubly loose
First part RAN KINGS (College Cambridge, but it's not run by the Provost)
"Orders" are RANKINGS sort of, as in "ranking orders".
Poor clue.

Withdraw my first objection - apparently the Master of Kings is called the Provost - unlike all the other colleges (and I'm a Cambridge graduate!)