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Just beat me to that, Unclued! The E is in 16dn : "brats" should be "braes" as the answer is a Scottish word.

thank you barretter and unclued - got there in the end!

Barreter - May have just been a typo, but males should be malUs (not mUles)

Getting there but not sure of answer for 4ac which has misprint. I have coccos for " possible f(a)rmer of lac in taro cropped with fish.

This affects 7dn "Don Juan's mother in poem and in book which I have one?

Any help ?

Thanks in advance

You have to "crop" "coccos" and add a two-letter word for a fish starting with the first letter of the name of Don Juan's mother (in Byron's poem). This will give you the insect that "forms" lac (or shellac).
Gem94 not a typo but an error on my part rushing to find a source of "u" in that clue. "Malus" is not in my old Chambers.

Barretter - correct spelling from me this time I hope, check Chambers under the thing pinched

Ah...nearly there. Getting better at the Listeners albeit very slow.

Thanks

Gem94 : I see it now, a long way into the entry under the phrase for the tree bearing the fruit in question. Thanks for that correction. Less haste more speed, I suppose.

I have a complete grid apart from 37 - ?t?are. Only one word fits but I can't work out the parsing. I now have the 12 letters and they make no sense. How do they exemplify the two words of the quotation?

steare - i'm not sure of the parsing either.

the 12 letters form 3 words 3, 2, 7

if you google them you will see they are 3 of 6 somethings. Then google the something and it should lead you to the author of the quote. which is 3 "somethings "........
The ..... is 13 letters long and is easily spottable in your grid.
Sorry I'm not much good at giving better clues.
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