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Brendan, many thanks. Does the capital C in cactus have a significance?

last letter only needed! Help with Deceased Scottish lover recoiled on the killing of a god (6)
missing any 'I' s and I have DEC?AE unless wrong somewhere.
Thanks. I enjoyed this as just the right level for a mid solving crossword Inquisitor fan.

Aslac.your 'e' at the end is wrong. - I don't know wht you chose that! There's a seven-letter word meaning 'killing of a god', then turn it into an adjective.

Think you have the wrong last letter. It ends L. Abbreviation for deceased plus Scottish lover backwards. But second part is a common word.

Thank you both Lumen and Malone. Can see the answer now. Made a careless assumption .. all done.

This was a fun little puzzle, finished it first thing on Monday but still missing the one unchecked letter in 19A.

I know the missing letter(s), and I've been pretty sure of the wordplay since Saturday.

But I just cannot find any definition that works for the entry - any hints?

If you add the deleted letter to the end of the grid entry you get a word meaning shlock. Both words are listed under “inferior” in Bradford’s

I've just looked at the solution to this and it confirms the extra letters give an instruction to anagram 11d. However, when solving it originally, I initially missed the D after ELEVEN and so thought we had to anagram the word ELEVEN which gives ENLEVE meaning "the abduction of a woman" which is basically what we have to do to Miss Muffet in the final grid (although she leaves of her own accord) - is this just a freaky coincidence?