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Thanks Brendan!

Got a late start, but have now finished, full grid, endgame, and all, save one nagging clue I can't parse - 43d.

Hi MPRS,

43d - Single letter "form of roundabout" + 3 letter instruction to make a horse "move on"

Thanks, Brendan. Seems obvious after you explain it. Don't they always?

I know, they really do. I had some real problems with the wordplay in a few clues earlier but, as soon as Quisling explained the parsing, I thought "yes, of course"! 😂

All done - very satisfying puzzle (thank you, Awinger) with some very challenging clueing, but all seen to be fair eventually.

I was going to complain about a misleading preamble, as I've been under the firm belief for many decades that the song title in question, in its official published form, very wittily featured the punning homophone - and hence the four examples of the homophone of that should have been nakedly obvious - but I see on referring to lyrics.com that the less-amusing homophone is indeed the official version.
Pity.

I'm completely baffled by the hints to the solution of the title 'An Overt' by Drxx #14; Dsc #29; Mooncow #36, #38; and Buddy #37 ; I can see that the second element only makes sense as a thematic(-ish) word 'stripped' of its two outer letters - but why should either or both elements have to be 'stripped' when this operation is not indicated in the preamble, nor applied to any other words in the puzzle?
And why is this word singular when the corresponding thematic words are plurals?

If this results in four 'extra' letters, do these form a thematic four-letter word? If so - or if not - I cannot make a convincingly thematic word or phrase for the title by restoring any combination of two letters around the 'An' element.

As usual, I'm probably one of little brain, and missing essentials.

quixote, "an" has been stripped in exactly the same way as "overt" has, though the four removed letters are not connected. Together these two words represent more examples of the last word of the song title.

Greetings all, this is my first post. Thanks to Awinger for a great puzzle. Am I alone in thinking that, with the highlighted cells, the setter, somewhat self-deprecatingly, might be referring to another thematic song and character?

quixote - to fulfil song title hints - the grid hints being one word would need to be plural...the title being two words fulfils it as plural...

I am a bit unsure about the title too Quixote. The only word I can get from the second word of the puzzle title is not an example of the second set of thematic elements - indeed it means a lack of an element.
I considered sans for the first word but surely that is too contrived.
I wondered if we should be looking for examples of the things we are advised to forget but I don’t get much from an.
I am left with a slight suspicion that we are all missing something.