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Please can anyone help with the following? I have answers but don't fully understand the parsing:

10d: Fragrant setting snubbed conference organiser (7)
S - E - T - D
Looks like SCENTED (= fragrant), but why?

38d: Voters go for post-inaugural address (10)
- L - C - O - A - E
Looks like ELECTORATE (= voters). "Go for" could be ELECT, and "address" could be ORATE. But where does "post-inaugural" fit in? Am I missing something?

Both correct. I imagine it’s SCEN(E), setting, + TED.

Ted is an online conference hosting platform. It’s a very 21st century reference.

I think (S)ELECT is “go for post-inaugural”, i.e. after the first letter, and then “address”, ORATE, as you suggested.

Thanks Quisling. Why is TED "conference organiser"?

Sorry, Quisling - I read your reply in a hurry and missed the explanation of TED. That's definitely a new one on me (sigh...)

I’ve seen it in the Times cryptic once or twice before, but it is a pretty modern usage. Here are a few more which only arrived this century. Your homework for today:

https://www.oed.com/discover/words-from-the-21st-century/?tl=true

Thanks Quisling. I've just had a look at that list, but I don't see TED on it!

Thanks Quisling, that was interesting to read.
Though such is the pace of change that Tweet and Twitterati are now presumably already defunct.

Good point, Jono. As is Blu-ray, I imagine. But I have a friend who bought a video recorder in the mid 80s. It cost him £2,500 then, and he still uses it, as he’s determined to get his money’s worth. The quality is so poor it’s unwatchable, of course!

I agree with tmwita that I don’t like the use of TED. It’s not in any of my dictionaries and puzzled me greatly first time I came across it.

Good Evening

Was I the only person who did the left & the centre but found the right side rather baffling? Why, incidentally, does this site query the spelling of "centre"? Do we have to follow the Ghastly American spellings all the time?

Back to business. Can anyone help me with :
27A - Car race perhaps contains large predictive software component (12)
I have ?U?O?O?P?E?E & assume it starts Auto...... but after that I'm baffled.

Thanks in advance.

It looks like AUTOCOMPLETE. Auto (car) compete (race) containing L for large. And the definition is a program that helps fill stuff in