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Wallowing today. Help please with B - Düssek composition featuring all except the second banks of violins (5)
F - chucks Cockney stuff over one side (6)

composition means anagram, save for 2nd letter

chuck as in toss, one side meaning right or left, in how a Cockney would pronounce a word meaning stuff (as in "my stuff", not stuff a turkey)

Thank you buddy. Kicking myself about Dussek but still stuck with a word for stuff I can adapt….

Re Cockney, it's not the usual "drop the H at the beginning" that is so often used.

Yes. Can’t think of a word at all. I’ll persevere. Thanks buddy.

'...aint wot they used to be'' (but, sadly, they are - Back on the bus!).

A loose word for "belongings", jogamel.

Well, I've filled the numbered cells and cold solved over half of the rest. Struggling to understand the preamble and have no idea where to begin a grid-fill. Needs a sharper wit than mine!

Just noticed I haven’t verified A- pens, formerly pens north of the Border. I have got STYES but not happy. Another HELP please

A material that (writing) pens used to be made from / a Scots word for pens (for animals)

bobbyc, it's worth persevering. If you have all the numbered cells then you know where each entry begins and ends. Gridfill takes some trial and error, but it works out. Getting the theme and therefore the contents of the shaded cells helps with some of the placements.

Having clicked through 8 recaptchas to give you that advice I think you are now legally obligated to carry on.