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Hello! I have the verse and poet and dedicatee etc, think I know what’s going on with the undefineds. However, I must have gone wrong somewhere with my crossings in 23d for which I now have -ASTIID-. Would be thankful for some advice :)

I think you have the wrong spelling of the city, Eider. You need the pre-1991 Soviet one. Dropping the last letter of a three-letter word for to resolve inside the code for Latvia

Eider, your first I should be an O

Thanks quisling, I should have thought there would be a different spelling and I'd not bothered parsing the clue

Quisling, my word is a plural of what julius Caesar would have worn. Thanks, will revisit 9d.

Yes, I saw your thinking, but I think it’s more thematic than that, if that makes sense

A bit tough this week! Had to come here for help finding that collective word. Many thanks to quisling, I could never have found it on my own!

Nearly there !
Is the dedicatee (three words) in a straight line ?

Dfg2, yes!
Any help for me to find poet?

Column four.
Is the line across/down/diagonal ?