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Chris - look at the first word in 31a

Re 13a - a good discipline when you’re stuck on parsing is to look up everything possible in Chambers.

Here, if you look up the word made up of the 3rd, 4th and 5th letters you should be able to work out the wordplay

And the 6th letter you refer to is from 31.

Thanks malone, MPR, and candledave, much appreciated. Everything makes sense, except I'm still confused about the bit from 31ac. That was exactly the clue I thought must be the one in question, based on the process of elimination, but the wordplay already works well for me as is:

"Start" (exclamation), striking/removing Henry/H, plus "over" as in "regarding" — to me this adds up to what I gather the definition to be.

I assume the first word is the one being modified, but I don't see how or why. Something around star/orb, maybe? I do apologise for my denseness here!

Chris

Lose the last letter of "start"

This is what gives you the 4 letter word that is reversed and needs to lose an "H"

Jordan--I see, thank you. I think I inadvertently found a legitimate alternative wordplay that works without the missing letter, but of course that's of little use here. Cheers!

Many thanks Awinger including use of all the alphabet in the grid.

I thought I'd finished this but actually I only have three of the synonyms, two of 5 letters and one of 11.
In fact I think I can see definitions for all but seven of the clues!
Must have gone wrong. 47a maybe? As don't know why we have Stokes.

There are three of 5 letters. Do you have 38d? And in 47a Stokes is for the s.

Thanks, that's the one.
Why Stokes=S?

A Stokes is a physical unit, something to do with fluid dynamics. Named after George Stokes, who also has a famous theorem in mathematics named after him.