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The homonym, as defined in Chambers, is an act of destruction - not a commercial arrangement, dodgepot.

I think I see the reason for the confusion, dodgepot - you're forming a second anagram from the same letter mix and getting a farm animal. My alternative comes from the other jumble of letters (starting with 'i').

The other set of alternates … I understand. I had forgotten that I had that parsing initially before I discarded it, in the absence of Scottish. Thanks for explaining

Exactly, our posts crossed. Well deduced!

Much like buzzb at 13 I am finding an ambiguity in the bottommost form. However I am finding an ambiguity in BOTH the first AND last letter!

Otherwise a very enjoyable puzzle. Thanks for the fun Degen.

On second thought the final letter can potentially be disambiguated by the 9th word of the speech. However I still see no way to disambiguate the first letter except for a loose interpretation of "enclosing" in the instructions.

Hello all,

I'm struggling with this one. The North East corner isn't working for me, despite hints on 6d. The obvious corrections to the definition don't yield any insight seen I Google. Maybe I've got fixated on the idea of a 3 letter abbreviation in a 4 letter word for judge? If that's right, I'm struggling to make any judge yield a result.

7d would help too. Again, maybe I've fixated on a two word anagram with the last two as the definition. Haven't figured out where the correction is.

Any prod which might resolve the deadlock would be much appreciated.

6D is a plain clue (no removed words or misprints) and is straightforward.

7D is much easier to get from the only possible candidates once you have the crossers; the definition (containing a misprint) is pretty hard to impossible from scratch (the correct sense is not in Chambers).

Yet again, I have a full grid, but struggling with the end-game. I believe I may have found one of the items to be surrounded. It is seven letters long and sits centrally on the penultimate row. Am I on the right track?

Yes. It would seem you need two words/twenty letters, enclosing 22 cells.