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Chambers provides support for all of riversk's suggestions if you look carefully enough.

Kilgore trout, yes, I'd spotted that, but was using (cryptically) 'not straight forward' as a hint to any others who might not have wanted to be told outright. I remain puzzled, because highlighting in a final grid almost always involves finding an exact equivalent of the word to be treated, and I can't see anything in the preamble to support reversal. But then of course the name doesn't appear anywhere else.

Malcolmmd

The 2nd word of the quote relates to the omissions.

Hi. Full grid. Found follower. See the sense of the omissions from the four clues. But really stuck with what the "happenings" are and what to omit. If the omissions give the name of the follower then rather brief. A nudge here or to richardellis@hotmail.com would be much appreciated

Rickye - look for four answers in the grid that could be classed as "events". Then replace the unchecked letters in front of them with the omitted groups of letters and check back what the quote says. The omitted letters spell a significant name.

Thanks a mill.

Thanks a mill.

See it all now. So presumably the penultimate letter of 23 for example becomes a c---n. not sure whether to use + or s---a elsewhere. Thanks again.

Yes - you are right about 23 - use s---a for 4dn.

I don't really see that sigma is better than '+'. Surely either would be acceptable.

I think sigma is closer to "sum". + is plus or and. I think both would be accepted however. Glad I don't submit - I am waiting for the day the solutions can be emailed like most other competitions.