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Sorry, greengage, I should have said in Bradford’s under what tumbler is a type of

Ah quisling, thank you. I couldn't see that because my grid is an unholy mess!

Thanks again ukridge, quisling, haven't got that book, a lack I shall rectify tomorrow!

In which case my post didn’t help, greengage. The third letter is the same as the fifth

Renewed thanks quisling; that word is in fact in Chambers, in italics as a Dutch word from which the headword is derived, so the last sentence of the preamble is true!

Glad you sorted it out. It’s a pretty improbable pair of homophones, to be sure.

Far too much time spent on this, for very little pleasure, alas. I have at last found the first escapee, but he doesn't fetch up where I expected. Rather than ask too much to be given away here, would some kind person email me at mrbaddie at btinternet dot com for an exchange of thoughts. (Only 296 runs needed!)

A little under half of the clues solved so far, no clue about the theme but the grid is starting to look relatively healthily populated, which is nice.

There's plenty left I've yet to solve, but I am particularly flummoxed by 33dn ("Short butt marred new wine (5)"), because it looks extremely straightforward in both definition and wordplay, but there seems to be an extra word in the wordplay I can't account for (and if my definition is correct, this wouldn't be an "extra word" clue). Any nudges on this are welcome!

Hi cr
Def is the last two words and a letter is missing from the third.

Thanks Ukridge, unfortunately that doesn't help—I was already using the last two words as definition and suspected the third word had the missing letter, but my confusion is that the first two words are complete as wordplay in my working. I can't figure out a way to require the third word.