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Bit frustrated by this one at the moment. Did the grid except 2 letters in 45 minutes, have the down clue message. Can't figure out the last 2 letters or make any sense of the across clue message rather annoyingly.

Is 11d ER*D? Think it may be related to ear somehow but can't see anything that fits.
Is 3rd letter of 26a O?
Does across message start BSE? Should I recognise that as something relevant to the theme?

Thanks

11d is old word for ploughed. 10 refers go your answer to 10.
BSE is correct, but you may prefer B's, E...

No problem lewap. Thank goodness for a straightforward puzzle in the hot weather. I’m all done now. Just had to be careful to chose the higher of the two Bs in column 1. I’m sure we have had a similar puzzle to this a long time ago.

Lewap, I'm a professional pianist too so had an idea how to choose the single columnar cells. How would anyone else know? Let's face it, EG is hardly famous among non-jazzos; I hadn't heard of the best selling work...

You're obviously not an habitue of the LP bins ib charity shops! I would also have thought the "best-known work" was also famous because of a certain Clint Eastwood film.

"in" charity shops that should have been!

I have the grid filled, but unsure of some of the parsing. In particular, 35a is driving me crazy. I feel like I almost have 28a; I figured Aragon has an extra a, but I don't see where the "AV" comes from in the entry. I'm not sure about 23d either. I have a word that is in Collins but not Chambers, which means put a hat on, but again the parsing eludes me.

I found the grid fill much more difficult than last week, unlike many here.

35: the T is extra in thugs so you've got H(enry) which U (toffish) Needy hugs. I'd love to see the Mitford nonsense of U = posh etc. binned once and for all and I'm surprised it still has currency in the Listener.

28 A is an old abbreviation for argon (according to Chambers) and RAV is your rabbi

23: C is extra so almost nod = BEC(k) + start to all = A + P(riest)

Thanks so much, loge. Didn't know A for Argon. I'm still scratching my head at 35 though. I have done enough of these to know "U" for "toffish" or "posh" but how does it come before the "H"?