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Thank you Malone.

42a Duck, getting caught after not scoring (8)
N?t?h?n?
Notching?

38a Teller of traveller's tale that's blunt, nothing held back (8)
?r?n?l?n

38 FRANKLIN (from Chaucer)
FRANK, then NIL backwards

NOTHING - duck, catching C for caught, def. "scoring" (as in making a mark in wood)

I found this one almost overly precise, in that it’s saying you have to place the C directly after the letters NOT, so that the definition is just “scoring”… as opposed to “not scoring”!