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14a Inactivity of MI6 station coming to the fore . ?t?s?s. Stasis fits and would be St then asis but can't see how MI6 gives us asis.
18d Excuses girl and boy pinching one shilling. ???s???s. No idea .
21d Old ass pulled up herb . O?e????. Think it's oregano. I can see o nag but where does ore come from? However if it is that then the o is the second letter of 29a
29a Order revolutionary books and articles from Helena would be
?o???n?n . I've got no idea what the reference to Helena is and Chambers Word Wizard doesn't come up with anything meaningful.

Sorry about the gap -don't know why that happened -may be something to do with the cookie issue that I can't get rid of despite deleting cookies, logging out and back in and fiddling about with adblocker.

Loubyloo10, SIS is secret intelligence service, i.e. MI6, with STA (longer abbrev. for station) in front.

OREGANO is correct. The reversed ass is an onager

Loubyloon the gap is caused by using adblocker. Admin. are aware and trying to fix it somehow

29a a is MONTANAN. Helena is the state capital of Montana, and is Order of merit OM reversed, + NT + AN +AN

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I think 18d is EVASIONS. Eva (girl) + son (boy) containing I

. . . and S (shilling) finishes it off

I'll get my coat.......:(

Thanks all -now I can go and do something useful -like trying to work out who will win the 28 runner Cambridgeshire at 15.40 at Newmarket.
I was convinced Helena was something Greek.