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Last two to get. I'm sure they're very simple. 28 a) Material aid for a blow job (4,3) ??T? ?A? 23 d) Mark Thatcher's first to get on the old wagon (5) T?A??

The second one is T WAIN

SNOT RAG

Thank you very much, nesbitt and Chips. All so obvious now.

Got the answer to 4d but can't quite work out how all the parts of the clue generate it.

Problem solved! A 'reed' is a 'marginal' plant. Aha!

I downloaded the puzzle this morning and have a full grid now, but I'm unsure about 12ac, 'Balls up, plump and beginning to smell' (6). I've got ?L?F?S. I've entered FLUFFS, but if it is that, I don't understand the wordplay. Can anyone help?

Hi Nesbitt.

If fluffs is the answer then, as ('fluffs' ≅ 'balls up'), the make-up could be 'fluff' ≅ 'plump' + 's'mell. Cushions can be 'plumped up' or 'fluffed up', yes, maybe?

JimC

Hi JimC

Yes, I'd thought of that. But it's all a bit tenuous, isn't it? I'm going to bung it in as it stands, anyway.