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I think I’ve finished but my unused clashing letters do not match with the ones that occur only once in the two items. Specifically I have ENAIOS but I feel like I should have RIGLAS. Can anyone help?

I think you’ve fallen into Elgin’s elephant trap. If you read the whole thread you should understand why. But briefly, start elsewhere in the top row

I’ve started at the cell marked with a p. Is that not the one?

What a brilliant cant parse 40dn can someone please explain for me?

Hi Lexawkward,

40d - If you add a two letter word for "indeed" to the end of your answer you get a word meaning "part with money to front".

Hi Grunos,

I initially fell into the same trap but you need to start in cell f.

Thanks Buddy for the wordplay for 10d.

Smithsax - ha! I had the correct hunter but, because I'd left all of the clashing letters written in the grid, I mistakenly used the wrong one to start off that 'alternative quarry'. What a great puzzle!

Hi Brendan

Ha! How good is that?!

What a clever trap to set (and I walked right into it...)

My very belated sincere thanks to HotelWhiskey7 and CandleDave for the chess-move info. I had assumed that the leaping from letter to letter would take the hunter from the top of the grid, to the bottom. Having made the correct leaps, I think the start & end points being on the same row of cells somewhat detracts from what is otherwise a brilliant puzzle.

I've now changed a G/O choice in cell 31 to an O as the second letter of the successful hunter's surname. This has presented me with a new problem, as I was going to use the G for the last part of the preamble.
Given that there are 4 occurrences of this letter in the grid ( Cell 7, Cell 20, Cell 31, and the 5th letter of 44 Across), can anybody help me out with which of these I should use. Or am I thinking of entirely the wrong quarry? It would be nice if the quarry was somewhere near the last letter of the surname, which I have at Row 1 Column 3.

There is only one way to spell out the quarry using letters that touch each other at edges or corners so use the G that has the other letters connected to it in some way