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Struggling with this - a couple may get me going.

1 across - Rubenesque in the rear, in turn sharply cut at the middle (6)

29 across - A Finnish company in retreat - no way out of Africa (6)
***O*A

2 down - Soak once in a pool, quietly going about, freezing point outside (6-3)
**D******

29 Google tells me that AIKONA is a vehement rejection in the Xhosa language, so "out of Africa"

...that should be
"No way!" out of Africa, of course.

Thanks, Chrise - it's also in the BRB!

Definition of 2d is ‘soak once’, as in an archaic term for a heavy drinker. I have to say I’d not heard of the term and can’t find it in the BRB

Thanks for the push, jono, it's in the BRB under "fuddle" -

I see it! Thanks

for 1 across - Rubenesque in the rear, in turn sharply cut at the middle (6)

I now have **F*** but getting nowhere

1 down also a bit of a bugger - Opening in one way not a thing to start on perhaps (6) **P***

Your 1ac is zaftig, rear in half of zigzag

1d ziptop, zip (not a thing) + to + p(erhaps)