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Hi Brendan

Thanks for your help yesterday.

I'd already got 24ac. I'm struggling with 24d, which is special. At the risk of a spoiler, I have C?AO, which only leaves one word and I can't see the theme letters let alone a definition. Are my crossers right?

I think I have 21 ac. I had this earlier, but dismissed it as the chemical is not one I'd heard of. ChrisE might know.

Your hint on 43ac was really helpful.

Unfortunately, I can't get either 5d or6d. I have ?O?T?T for 5d and ?O?D?I. Are any of those letters right?

I've still to annotate my map.

Thanks to all anyway!

Hi Brendan
Re your posts at 73 and 83, aren’t the thematic pair the 4th and 5th letters rather than the last 2?
I hope so, as if not I’ve gone very wrong - I thought I’d managed to solve this monster at 12.45 am on Easter Day!

Feebee
Re 19a (can’t see that anyone has replied to this yet): you need to split Passover into two.

roof.
28d - your crossers are right. The thematic letters are in the middle and the solution is Italian but in common currency in the Anglosphere.
5d - your letters are right. The 4 letter solution is a French word.
6d - unless I’m mistaken about 21ac (see above) the last letter should be N.

PS, roof - as it happens, the 4 letter solution in 5d is your French counterpart!

I’m sure most people have long since moved on from this puzzle, but I started it late last night and have only just completed it - I hope… Could anyone help with 48 down please? I have an answer but have no idea what it has to do with 4 letter words for wrapping bodies or rituals and my answer also uses the same 2 ‘special’ letters as my answer to 29 down, so something is probably awry. Thank you.

Hi Janeiro
The themed letters in 44d are the 2nd and 3rd, not the first two.
Does that help?

(Sorry - 48d of course)

Such an obvious explanation! Thank you so much for indicating my error, though I did have a moment of panic thinking I had 44 down wrong and had maybe messed up the whole thing! I can, rather belatedly, get on with the day ie today’s Guardian Cryptic!