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I surrender with all that is required for the endgame. I'm surprised how many in the forum have no interest in / knowledge of the theme, like me: even using the internet for instructions completion is impossible without the least understanding. Oh well, roll on 4727

All done and in the mail; pace Dsc, once the PDM came I found the internet very helpful indeed, even though I'm one of those with no great knowledge of, or interest in, the subject, beyond an uncomprehending fascination contemplating those minds, like Drxx, who evidently have diagrams of countless such situations going back centuries, and instantly recognisable, in their heads - and who also evidently find it hard and distressing to comprehend that we lesser beings might not be able to do this - or even care to...

Another such genius is evidently Crash, to whom thanks for a staggeringly intricate construction - my initial annoyance with the weirdness of the clueing was almost completely transformed to admiration when the the multi-layered intricacy of the thematic requirements were revealed -
'almost', because I'm still foxed by the parsing of quite a few clues - in particular 21a, 22a, 37a, 33d, and 35d. If anyone can devise a means of explaining these without giving TMA I'd be grateful to be relieved of the mindworms still gnawing away - particularly the one with the pink prow - but if not, it doesn't really matter.
Well done, WS!

My answer to suzannahj @48 attempts to explain 35d, quixote - if you read it carefully enough.

...and if you'd read any of my posts with sufficient care you'd know that I haven't memorised this or any other sequence. The information is simply doled out for anyone to read - right from the start. If you had to grind through all of the clues to get there that's a great pity, because it wasn't really necessary.

21a is a simple anag + 'p'.

answer to 22a is in the clue.

malone explains 37 earlier in the thread.

33 change the first word for the def - obvious 1 letter abbrev + (exclamation) 'stop!' and the obvious...

Drxx - thanks for your response, which is very generous in the light of my earlier crack which I now see was nasty and offensive - I apologise.
(I'm too readily a smart-arse, as well as revealed as too sloppy to read this forum thread carefully - mea maxima.)

Drxx - '21a' in my query post was a mistype - I meant 31a."Capo...";
33d - I still can't see this in spite of your explanation - the only possible correction letter from the message only gives two possible mods for the first word, which you say is the def., one a latininism, and neither gives a def. for the entered answer - although one would be a def.for the last 3 letters in the entry, along with the 'simple abbreviation' as the first.
Then the last word in the clue would be a - rather oblique - definition of the whole entry - but can't see the 'stop', or how this works.

Any thoughts at all on the 35d 'pink's prow' word play'?

["...as my kanakas pulled my fellucca to the atoll..." - 'Round The Horne' - late1960s - never forgotten...]