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Much more fun than last week's horror, but this is baffling me, must be 'The Boat Race' but can't parse it:
35a Sporting event returning live, though somewhat on the periphery (3,4,4).

Also puzzled by the definition here, is there some association between Holland and bigamy?
1d Nonsense - boast of bigamist (6,5)
A: Double Dutch

1 D Dutch is another word for wife, Cockney stuff I think. A bigamist could boast, say he had two wives, Double Dutch.

BE backwards in THO A TRACE
"Dutch" is rhyming slang for "wife" (mate, to be precise, I think), so DOUBLE DUTCH would be 2 wives

35 Be - live, returning so Eb, inside Tho A Trace, somewhat on the periphery?

Thank you, I would have said 'Tho A Trace' would mean a small amount rather than somewhat on the periphery, but there you go.

Close to finishing, a rare result for me, but not sure about these.

3d Over everyone, small earwigs and beetles primarily creep (3)
If it's 'slimeball', I can account for everything apart from the 'earwigs' in the clue and the 'lime' in the answer.

33a A row I stomach, concealing bit of a pout for one always (2,9)
A: Ad infinititum.
I can account for everything apart from the 'bit of a pout' in the clue and the 'fin' in the answer.

44a Swindle involving right number of racehorses, for example (6)
Answer is 'string' I assume, but why racehorses?

44a string is a group of racehorses trained at one stable

Sorry, the number of letters in the answer to 3d should be 9, not 3.

33 A pout is a fish, so has a fin...

3d small = slim + e(arwigs) + ...