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I am climbing the walls now. I have one clue left to solve - the antepenultimate across clue, beginning "Australian bird...". Please put me out of my misery.

One of the usual 2 letter 'appeals' in the commonly used part of the name for a brand of lager. Not an anagram of lager (casual) that I tried to make work for far too long!

Sorry, 'appeal' not 'appeals'.

granama1: thank you. 'Casual' is not a word I associate with that particular brand. Far from it.
I wonder if you shared my joy-leading-straight-to-shattering- disappointment on finding the word 'Glareola' - the rightest wrong answer I have ever stumbled across.

I had a couple of letters so that one didn't crop up. 😊

I have a full grid but struggling to parse a final couple.

To waste time, American lawyer.....
Settles continuous returns.

Both have reasonably convincing options for their first letters and I'm reasonably happy with what I've chosen but the parsing would be the ultimate decider.

Have the first location and the feat and what looks like a sponsor for the second but it has been a real challenge to get this far. Think I'll rest the old brain and revisit tomorrow.

A 5 letter word for 'waste time' with the 'every' part of it replaced by the American lawyer.

A double def for the obvious answer - the second def (two words) has to do with tennis.

(1) Take a word for "to waste time" and replace everything inside it with a 2-letter American lawyer, giving an important juncture.
(2) It's a term from tennis, apparently - it's in my Chambers, but I've never heard it. I imagine you have a toss-up between 2 first letters. It's the first one you thought of.

drxx - you beat me to it!

A word for "to waste time" (often in conjunction with a similar word) has the word for everything replaced by and American lawyer.
"Settles continuous returns" is a (pretty obscure I think) double definition, backed up by Chambers.

granama
To waste time etc is I think: 'da' for 'all' in dally
Settles etc, is double definition