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I know I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm struggling with 37ac. I can't get the 6 th letter to be what it should be - I have 16 of the cells to make the required scene, but I can only get M in the final cell, whereas it should be a nearby letter.
Thanks

Anagram of MrMuscle - it's a Dickens character

Thanks, Tatters- I'm not good on Dickens!!

I have what must be the correct answer but in which book is the character found? Also a hint on the construction of 26 down would be helpful; I cannot see where to insert the corrected letter (which I have).

Nicholas Nickleby, Nortab. 26 is an anagram of (h)ER SEAT and the answer is the Christian name of a former MP.

Notrab, sorry!

Thanks Loge. As it happens I had got 37 across wrong!! It would have helped to have spelled 28 down with a C rather than an S and not invented a character ending in R!! No wonder I could not find any reference to a S******R!!

I have thanked Mira on the other thread for an excellent puzzle. Omitted there - and I hope it’s not considered a spoiler here - is an admission of a particular frisson for me. I have a personal connection as I worked (and still do, since it involves administering a bit of that person’s legacy) for the bearer of the missing name.

I just noticed there was one more I hadn’t completely parsed. In 19d I know the definition is claws, and the last four letters are clear, but where do the first two letters come from?

Poldark is a Cornishman (I think) so it's the SW English dialect form of 'I'.