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Really struggling. Have about 25 answers but so many clashes make it very hard to enter them.
So I’ll start with a few of the most irritating pleas for advice.
The 11 letter down cries out to go in column 7, first two letters are right. Then it clashes again and again, should I worry or not. Then I presume the 10 letter entry somehow changes thematically to 11 later?
Glib account in collection of papers (6) and Note in case brought to hospital (3) are holding me up as the only acrosses missing in top section. Presumably it’s a note ending in H but can’t see it.
Of ones already mentioned on the forum, I still can’t solve the game; or the ‘gear’ which a poster hinted was B&Q stock, both really key in firming up my acrosses.
In the downs, I have a good unusual first letter that would give location of Geelong but what has cloudy got to do with it.
And similarly next to it with an unusual first letter is the Mayan one? But the only word (which is not in Chambers) seems to relate to a language, so why Mayans see through?
Enough. Will try IQ, maybe Ifor will restore my confidence.

Greetings from the sandbank. I too have given up and will go for a swim and catch some herrings - much easier now there are fewer tourists ogling me from boats.

My thanks to gitto and planks for their willing assistance, but this one is just too difficult. The combination of opaque clues, all necessitating cold-solving to begin, and a challenging end game means I'll throw in the towel (if I ever knew what such a things was).

Re Turast, post 32, I am baffled.

Where he has RENDEZVOUS, I have MEETS UP, and his bottom row has ....SLAVE, NICHE, but they should be 4 letter answers.

What is going on?!!

He’s giving us synonyms to avoid spoilers.

Or she !?

Lumen - glib account etc; normal clue, straightforward in the context.

Collection of papers - four letters.

Thanks hw7.
Did they used to be on paper then, before computers?!

Lumen, I can help you with the clues but I'm still stuck on the revealed descriptions.

The note: think of "a needle pulling thread" if you're old enough to remember the Sound of Music!

The game is 4,2,3 and the last word is the name of a month. There are three unindicated letters.

Gear is homophones of the Scottish word for turnip and a cutting tool. The gear would protect a lower part of the body

Looks like you're on the right lines with Geelong. If I have it right, only two letters are indicated by the wordplay (C = cloudy, I - current)

See in the Mayans clue is a spelling of the letter C which goes inside an anagram of eustacy. If you google Mayas plus your first letter you should get a suggestion that is the answer.

Lumen, the B&Q stock sounds is a homophone thingybob.
Think ..... & tatties.
Good luck with the Inquisitor. I have a full grid and not the foggiest what's going on!

Buzzb, thanks for your post at 50. I'd gone to bed by the time you posted! I've been trying to find the synonyms but although I can think of plenty for the individuals (including some which are unprintable) I have not seen anything in the grid that fits. I think I must have misunderstood the way the larger-than-life characters are entered,

Onward and downward!