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No posts for this one, perhaps not surprising, as was pretty gentle after some recent mind-melters. Just wanted to thank Phi for a nonetheless wonderful, clever puzzle. I wonder how many solvers know this work from an interpretation by a group from the 1970s. They were much-maligned, but I love their version, which everyone had but promptly hid come the punk pogrom of '77.

Yes I suspect most solvers, like me, have knowledge of this, and these key words from that version!
It was all over a bit too quick once theme emerged.
No idea on parsing of 3d though.

Hi Lumen, a voe is the same as a geo, or gio, a gully or creek in Orkney or Shetland

Agree fell into place nicely and well consructed. Just realised, disposing of paper, that I don't have a parse for 34A and 9D? ...

crates, the limit to reimbursement is R or T and for 9D "the last" refers to 8D, so it is an anagram of NO + A + 8D.

Thanks Gitto, the parsing of this was doing my head in!

Got everything, but can’t quite understand the wordplay in 11A ..
Individual in the village no longer ready to overlook a curious Elizabethan word

I believe it's one, individual, and yare, archaic word for ready, overlooking the a

I should have added that in the village is there because yare is archaic and dialectical

Thanks gitto! - was approaching both from a different mindset ...