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This is turning out better than I originally thought, but I'm stuck in the lower right.

Assistance with these may kick-start my wearying brain.....

36D - Free Image coming up, spread around (11)
E??????????
&
53A - How to get thousand, perhaps, for a number in the sixties (5,3,5)
T???? ??? S????

Thanks in advance.

The second one is Twist And Shout. What a lovely clue.

36 Emancipate, free. Pic, image, comes up, inside Emanate.

I get Emancipated for the first one.

Peterm,
Thank you for that which I never would have thought of as I take the view that music largely died with Richard Strauss.

Malone,
Thanks, also. I thought of this but couldn't see the parsing.

Now with any luck, I'll finish before my sister.......

Thanks again.

Thanks, Bear. I got the tense wrong, forgot to put it in the past!

Can't parse 54 across

Polish base for white castle? (4)

Sure that the solution is HONE but its true definition is "to sharpen" and how does the rest work?

Another Jumbo on Friday?

Ken, that one's a chess term - H One is some sort of move, involving a castle, rook. (I know nothing about the game, I simply saw discussion of this!)

Thanks Malone. I have played chess and never heard of that - presumably used in the higher echelons of the game!

a1 and h1 (h one) are the starting points (base) for white rooks (castles).