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I too am stuck with a complete grid and the 4 link words identified by krauton. I'm trying to find the dedicatees' surnames from the letters removed from the down clues. I have 10 of these - can anyone please confirm that this is correct - or have I missed some?

There are 12 letters altogether, suitably spaced

The surnames are both six letters and are interwoven.
ABABABABABAB giving AAAAAA and BBBBBB

Aha! That should get me unstuck. Thank you both.

This led me to some seriously (for me) obscure googling, but I think I got there. Knowing that others had solved me definitely kept me going!

Got there in the end, but I still don't understand the wordplay in 23 Down.

I took 23d as a partially &Lit clue. 'walls' is a containment indicator, but the first 5 words are also the def.
'ball' (1) in 'to hurl at' (4) + 'one' (1)

Having difficulty parsing 3d, although I have the answer. The two dedicatees seem a trifle obscure.

If you’ve removed the correct extra letter (H) the wordplay splits 3,1,2. The last two words give the 2

And of course, it’s then reversed (lifted as it’s a down clue)