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Thanks Lumen! Your hint about the little word might have helped.

As for 44A, I needed an 'n' to complete the misprint phrase. And I don't see how it makes sense without a misprint.

Oh, and what's with 9D? The words in brackets seem unnecessary.

44a think it's just an (informal) reference to the enforcement role of the University officers

9d I parsed it as almost all i.e. Nessi, reversed bar the N, 'the head'.

Hi Muraria!

Thanks for clearing up 44A. That works for me now.

I've still got the 'n' in my answer to 9D. I've lost an 'e'.

Suzannah x

Ah, sorry,Suzannah, my reply was ambiguous. I mean that all is reversed except the N so it becomes Nisse and not Issen (apologies for the answer, don't think IQ is policed as strictly as Listener!)

Thanks Muraria! That makes perfect sense now.

And you're right - always much more relaxed on the IQ threads than the Listener threads. Quite often better crosswords, too.

hi, I'm still confused re 44a - as I have it, there has to be a misprinted N in one of 43/44/45 and 44 seems the only possible candidate - but like Suzannah says nick or kink seem less appropriate than the original? Any help!?

Cranberryboat, the fact that misprints are alternate surely means it must be in 44a, and I think nick has to be the intended one. I think the point must just be that they are responsible for enforcing discipline, so they can catch miscreants, as Muraría said earlier. But I wasn’t wild about it

Thanks Quisling (& Muraria) - I can see they have the power to "kick" (off a course) but struggling to see how they might "nick" - still, it has to be! Super puzzle overall :-)

Ah, I do 'get' it now , partly being a bit dense :-/

It's a long time since we've been this flummoxed. We have four unvalued entries, the phrase and understand the title. We have completed the barred off cells two give the two two-words that they are cryptically and idiomatically related to. And ... that's it. Have no idea what 3 letters to change as we don't really understand what 'the origin of the ideal MD' means. Could some kind soul point us in the right direction? I'm sure we're missing something blindingly obvious.