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Right. I've finished.
I didn't really enjoy that. I was most annoyed by the message: I am insufficiently versed in the relevant language to have been able to even begin to sort it into its component words. Having identified the language, I was thinking about events of 100 years ago.
Altogether, too much of a slog.
But thanks, everyone, for your help.

Biggus, you're looking to change a generic word to a specific theme related word. If you've got the symbols and/or seen a picture of the overall thematic item that will help. That's a bit vague I know - it's hard to explain without massive spoilers.

My last post is now redundant - too slow!

24a - Accepted broadcast TV licensee willy-nilly (11)

I've got a foreign language phrase that fits the definition "willy-nilly" and parses perfectly (although it's not what I thought it meant!) but it's at least 4 words and the enumeration indicates just one?

Brendan, 24a. is one English word. An anagram after one letter meaning 'accepted'.

No, cancel that - it can't be what I thought.

Finally got it - That was painful 😫

Apologies Mattrom, I completely missed your post - that's the state this puzzle has got me into, but I appreciate it anyway 😜

I did finally realise that "accepted" doesn't necessarily have to be 'a' - and it only took me about an hour! 🤬 My problems began when I saw that, with 'a' as part of the anagram, it spells "en c'est la vie" so "that's life" (let's just gloss over the "en") and a definition of "willy-nilly" is 'inevitability" which is sort of the same thing .... kind of ... - well, it made a lot more sense a couple of hours ago, but keep in mind I've only slept 4 hours since my Prize blog 🥱

Anyway, I've got the quote and final word so think I'll put it aside for the night and leave the endgame for tomorrow, ... fresh eyes and all that.

There are still a few I haven't parsed so may well be back later - after some much needed sleep, naturally 😀

I have never dug a tunnel with a teaspoon, but doing this puzzle on and off over the past couple of days makes me think I know how tunnelling like that must feel. Still got 5 answers to complete - all of which will contribute to the message and one of which must have additional letters for an unchecked light. The letters of the message I do have make no sense (even when I remember it needs to be the wrong letters, not the corrections). And the checked letters of the final word also give no credible possible results - other than one in a dialect of Portuguese. I must have gone horribly wrong somewhere. I think I’ll wait for the solution to be published and put my spoon away.

Hi Jack,

I don't know if it will be of any help but my way to finding the message spelt by the extra letters was was to put the ones I had from the silvered cells into an online crossword solver - this gave 2 results, one of which was a foreign language 'looking West' as a previous poster mentioned. I then just put "what quote ends with ??????" into Google and voila! (It's not French, by the way)