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Hi Steff, sorry I couldn't help last week, but I'd just been released from hospital after an emergency operation, which had been scheduled for today, plus my wife was admitted to the same hospital that same day as her dementia had worsened.
Anyway, the clues are as follows:
12a. Flexible word with various meanings including a huckle-bone-and-flexor-containing bodily haunch; a red fruit of the wild rose; part of a cheer-invoking cry; a word for “fashionably current, with-it”; or, hypochondria (3)
26a. A workout for body, mind, soul or spirit in the form of drills, keep fit, meditation, a musical étude, a school task, training or worship (8)
34a. “Blast from the past” whose name is used to refer to a fellow, a joke, a lark, an oddly dressed figure or ridicule (3)
51a. Onomatopoeia echoing the watery sound of a diver or a stone hitting the water’s surface and recalled in a phrase meaning “make waves” (6)