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It's a Scottish word for lash in the sense of to tie

Note by Admin - post amended as I am informed that it gives away too much, virtually the answer in fact.

May I just say thank you to The Ace of Hearts for a challenging but enjoyable puzzle.i hope for many more.

Doh! Thanks Will37. First of all I got fixated that a Scottish word meaning 'hoarse' was almost present. Then QAT suggested 'pig-out'. 😄

I got up late today with a couple of solved radial clues whose parsing evaded me. 24 was easier to understand when I finally remembered to remove the extra letter, and I was grateful for hints given here for 32.
My last one solved was 28 but the BRB is not yielding a useful definition. May I just ask if its two words (or, some may say just its second word) are/is connected to the definition in 32?
Thanks, The Ace of Hearts, for a mostly straightforward grid fill for this torrid weekend on the south coast (UK).

I too find the skewed entries (as in 3) a little mind-bending at times. I've found the best way to deal with this is to extend the lines on either side of the three outer cells of the radial to the centre circle.

(In the good old days of what I like to call "dartboard grids", before there was a thematic element to be found in the innermost ring and letters to be removed from clues to provide a definition of it, radials were always in groups of four, leading to 36, 40 or 44 clues. In those grids, the first three cells from the circumference were separated from the next in the group, as in this puzzle. Then, if I remember correctly, the next two rings had two cells – the first clockwise serving the lower numbered two cells in the group, the second clockwise serving the higher numbered cells. Finally, the innermost ring would have one cell serving all four radials in the group.)

Yes, jif73 - there's a 32 connection and the two word phrase is in Chambers under the entry for its second word (the definition of which sends you straight back to the second word, which in turn gives you the definition in the clue).

Could someone provide some assistance with 18 please?

18 is 3-3 letters; definition is first 2 words: 3rd word gives the first half of the answer and the remaining 2 give the second half.

Definition at start, wp is a word for “course” and a word for “in error”

Thanks will37 and candledave. I’m not sure what’s going on at 18. I have the first and third letters from the ring answers, and the fifth and sixth as the first two of 20. I’m convinced I have all three correct. However there is apparently no word which fits the letters I have in 18.