Wordplay may lead to an "extra" letter not entered in grid 41a As a result of cooking most of the new American prime of turkey is OK (8, 2 words) ???????O 43a Boodle's banned earl from religious birth...
16a High-pitched or tinkling alto parts(7) OR?H?AN orthian fits but how do alto parts come into it? 30a Foursomes in international entering good steady scores (5) ?AIES 19a Workers etc feed us, work...
4d Spenser's suddenly no less caustic (6) ???A??
17d Edifices where the Virgin cradles Jesus? (7) ?E???R?
18d King abandons tremendous punishment (7) ???N???...
I have finally struggled to a full grid ( though not fully able to parse some of the across clues) but no idea of how to "change a single letter" to reveal the given name of a relevant charcter. Any...
9a It identifies 5's last novel (7) ??H?D?A (answer to 5 is Lehmann) 4d Creatures from the pen of Berger, writing in French (5) S???p possibles echidna and sheep?? 8a He spoke for Samuel Butler , in...
33a In short dance, very little material's needed (6) VEL?E? looks like velvet but how does the clue work? 11a Passed over angry mangaer's complaint after match? For this clue the grid entry has 7...
28a Term for Will's date that's ill-judged (5) LATE? lated? Shakespeare? 35a Get tea through me - my charges are small (9) ... think the ans is CHAPERONE - I can see the tea (cha) and through (per)......
Each pair of rhyming lines contains both a definition (one or more words) and a mixture or reversal of the letters (beginning at the beginning or ending at the end of a word in the clue) of the two...