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Thank you, I thought it so unlikely that ‘ut’ could be a word in English I didn’t even try checking.

Glad we could help, StrangelyBrown. I have encountered it before - and was as doubtful as you then!

Several baffling me.
15a. Powerless to block basin (5)
s-o-p
16a. One soldier, carried round on the back of a native (9)
a-o-i-i-e
Aborigine?
38a Figure having third name for film is silly (5)
n-n--

38 ninny
ninety with n instead of et

15 stoup - a basin for holy water
stop up
16 has gi and one in it?

16 a + igi + borne?