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Hi lumen - 22 I think is a large (capital) letter used for any number, followed by a colloquial phrase of two two-letter words meaning to be 'privy to' (eg. a secret). 23 seems to be just an encyclopaedia look-up (with appropriate letter-shuffling for the theme) - wordplay is a four-letter word meaning 'to turn' followed by abbrev. for 'old'.

Thanks. Got both and am finished I suppose!
Still baffled by seven empty cells, when I saw only two. Where did we go wrong. Way back at post 7, loge was talking about about how to fill the seven empty cells. Mine are full of os and ys!

Lumen, what is below those cells filled with o's and y's???...

I’ve just seen that five down clues must each be entered with a space, to create the 7 letter gap.

As clearly mentioned in the preamble.
Not!

Where are the 2 letters to be highlighted and why please?

Kirky, if you've got the name from the moved letters in the down clues, you'll know the rhyme whose next words are "something" and "something" - the "somethings" having the same first letter. This letter only appears twice in the grid. If you have got the theme you'll get the significance of the two "somethings" from the long Wiki entry.

Pentlandsound, interesting that your 44 cells vary by one cell from what TonyNannini, Drxx and I have. Either could be right as far as I can see!

Thanks loge ...the trouble is ..i haven't got the rhyme ...everything else but ...the letters i have don't make sense (and obvs i'm missing a few...)

In my grid F and K each occur twice but i could have a mistake or 2!

Ah ...now i see i have a wrong answer so i have another letter only in the grid twice