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I have one cell left to fill, it's the first letter of 28d, if I can get a broad hint I'd appreciate it.
Otherwise as others have said, pretty easy grid fill and now I'm mulling over what the three word phrase could be. And I can't spot the four letter word I'd expect to find !

Hi Lumen,

If you look up "del" in Chambers and then reverse/"upraise" it it will give you an ancient name for Great Britain and then you just thematically adjust it.

Thanks Brendan, I'm at work (night-shift..) without my Chambers but I'll look later, thanks. Can't get it without. Is the final answer (before treatment) in Chambers too?
Re your earlier post, I'm reading it that the four letters ARE consecutive in the grid, just not in the thematic phrase?

28d - pre treatment both answers are in Chambers but once it's been thematically altered the final answer is not in Chambers.

Ignore my post about consecutive letters, I still don't know what I'm looking for.

Final entry is a boy's name then?

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Like others, this was a quick grid-fill, but I'd appreciate explanation for 18ac, 36ac and 20d.
I can think of a single word to describe the theme, but haven't any idea of a 3 word phrase. Any hints?

18ac: AS = 'for example' + abbrev for gray

36ac: Reverse: ran into = met + odd characters from soy is

20d: replace the last (of three) abbrevs for 'afternoon' with an O in a kind of lynx

Thanks buzzb.
Now for the grid-stare!

Having filled the grid in probably my PB time for the listener, I am rapidly losing patience with the endgame having Googled numerous possibilities to no avail.

Would the "group" I am looking for be of the musical variety?