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15 What do runners, athletes, sometimes hit? That's the first four letters, the other two come from 'beginning to...' The sap is a person, a dolt....

Thom, for 6d “Half-heartedly practises” is the definition. Then “songs” surrounded by exact/perfect.

Thanks all!

Turns out I'd managed to get two separate crossers in 6D wrong, which slowed me down a bit. All done now. Full grid and v clever endgame.

Finished this, but don't understand 19d at all. Just entered only word that fitted. Connected to theme I guess?

Lumen in 19d. "his" could be read as more than one "hi"

Oh wow. Would never have seen that.

I’ve found the verb in the line that says how the person broadcast the message spelled both ..LL’D and ..LLED, in different sources, but not ..LD? I’m pretty sure the version to enter is ..LLED. The most unusual word that arises from changing 9 letters to include the second half of that line is a “chiefly Scottish” interjection expressing sorrow, according to Merriam Webster.

Can anyone clarify the wordplay for
27 “Ingeniously overcomes work bar quietly absorbing taunt (7)”, or
8 “50% of Spenser chauvinist female’s claiming (6)”?
I see definitions for both are at the start.
Thanks

From memory, it’s o(p)us containing twit.

And Alf (Garnett) was a famous chauvinist in Till Death Us Do Part

Thanks, quisling. But where does Spenser come in to it? Seems superfluous?