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Thanks pkd and crackability!

Two unresolved clashes to fit into the across message somehow, but will look at that with fresh eyes tomorrow!

Thanks for all your help!

Hi

Filled grid but can't get a couple of missing across letters

What is the last word of the message?

I have last across word as "diagonal".

Can anyone parse 48a) for me?

Voulez-vous,
CReditor
ON = going
after M1
owe -> one

48a

creditor = cr
going = on
after
m=money
I=i

Misprint is in owe

Should read "one over a thousand mill" = micron

For 25d, I have H?RTENS?

Some French women are so naked, a number lying in bay?

Is this a proper noun? if so what is the def. or is there a clash here/

Hortense. French woman's name. TEN in HORSE (a bay). Misprint in naked, should read named

Thanks ollie and pkd.

Grid filled and messages read!

I will sleep on the rest!

Thanks Pkd

What we need now is some interpretation of what needs to be done to the rectangle. There is an implication that initial letters are involved, but the 10 cells with the initial letters within the rectangle don't seem to anagram to anything. And the 5 things which have to go in the first 5 cells at the top (= 6 letters as far as I can see) don't imply a 7th letter to go thematically into the 6th cell. Maybe these thematic entities represent more than one letter? I don't know anybody old enough to ask. Still, a lot further forward than 3 days ago. Trudge, trudge ...