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sorry - I meant the 3rd and 4th letter ...

Prospero, I think "much seen" = popular = in

ah, thanks ionexch - bit of a stretch, though ...

Afternoon all

Slightly confused... If I follow the instructions I get a set of new, real words (one proper noun), which do not match with the letter counts in the submission form.

I'm assuming we are meant to enter the new words and that the letter counts were deliberately not changed as that would have been an additional clue? But not confident...

All done, and instruction followed OK, but I may be missing something. Are there several possibilities in one or two places?

sir c - I entered the full words in the form, then thought maybe one should have entered the reduced ones, so sent those from a separate email - belt and braces, as it were. On reflection what one might best do is enter the whole words with the deductions in brackets... buzzybee - I found ambiguity in 27 but it didn't give me the instruction - if you have the instruction I don't think there are alternatives.

Thanks Prospero - I'll do that

Thanks Prospero. I was making this too complex! I agree that there is no ambiguity in the instruction per se, but I then assumed one had to do something additional to complete the grid. Apparently not.

I am genuinely thinking of giving up on this one. Two questions. Does the "nonsense and more nonsense ..." answer begin with a type of opera, and has anyone any hints for "Person getting chill ..."? Having written this, I am not sure I can fit the words in anyway (and I understand the instructions).

Pendragon
First query. Nope, no opera. Two words for nonsense including the usual for "old". The second: parses 3 + 3, def is last 3 words.
Further comments. As people have discovered, the solution to 12 is indeed a Maori word (as is the compiler's nom de plume), well loved by us Kiwis.