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Your Reginald is correct! There's a very famous one...musically speaking.

Many thanks Malone. I finally have him. Now for the end-game!

Thanks, Opt0.

PS. I hadn't bothered collecting the letters, but thought/hoped my thing about the anagram was one way in!

Malone

I am afraid that your hints have confused me. I have the colour, and the extra letters spell PATINA or anagram, possibly A. Tapin as the collaborator.

The colour followed by the obvious 5,4 gives a well-known phrase from a song. You mention Reginald, who I assume wrote the music but it is about 90 years ago.

I suppose I may have been wrong to suggest the wizard theme.

Grunger, as mentioned earlier, I didn't do all the letters - but I remembered having a U... The collaborator is just a surname, but not with two As.

The EV Reginald didn't write the music about 90 years ago, the theme's one is old, but not that old!

Malone

Thanks - that does help. I had scat -"to hare" when it must be "scut" which is not "hare".That would give the U that you mention. So not "a tap-in" but "a world leader" as mentioned in the hints, anagrammed. Clever.

I will have to google musical Regs

Grunger, thanks - and glad you have got that bit sorted. I have a feeling you might be kicking yourself later...

Malone

Thanks. I have got the correct Reg and made the conversion, but am stuck at the last hurdle.

Google tells me that about a famous phrase -4 words.

In the grid this is: synonym of 18D (also the title), Colour, then 5,4.

But I cant see a synonym of 5,4 in the 9- letter answers.

Obviously missing something.

Thanks for the update, Grunger. The 5,4 is peripherally relevant - the synonym, two words, is definitely for a nine-letter word/answer.... (And the famous phrase is linked, closely, to the resulting entry.)

I thought the synonym was 6,3??