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Sorry Drxx, too slow (again). Bedtime for me!

Thanks both, it was the definition I didn't see. Got it now.

For 16 I had the wordplay as:

a=one (as in 'a thing' is the same as 'one thing'.

D for degree is first - as in before ONE.

Thanks Nelson, I like that!

Nelson, I think your parsing of 16 is better than mine as it accounts for the A - mine doesn't.

Still battling away at the end game here!
Q1 are there 2 omitted letters in 13a?
Q2 23a I assume that firstly means first letters and have an answer for ‘elemental estimates’ but ‘issue’?
Q3 Are the omitted letters in order as I have some strange combinations?!
Thanks.

1. Yes

2. Firstly is first letters of the following three words, and then secondly means the second letters of the next three. The first two letters of the answer are missing from the wordplay

3. Hard to answer this without giving too much away. Try entering the unaccounted for letters where they appear in the grid in a different colour...

Thanks Loge, I’ll plug on. I got fixated on ST for standard in 23a.
Any hints on parsing 34a? Struggling to get on Radler’s wavelength!

The answer means a set of three - it's in Chambers. I didn't know that before yesterday!

The parsing is a word for little beyond all other or smallest minus its end, + H.

Granama, 34a def. is 'threesome' (of animals) - in Chambers
A word for 'little beyond others', minus the last letter, + H