Ev 1246

[saladdodger]

Can anyone help please with the phrase to be written under the grid (supposedly deduced from the additional words from across clues)?
Thanks for any help

[hankir]

It is a phrase from Latin Mass.
Extra words from 5 thru 20 will give you an answer broken down as
3+3+4+1.
So Clue at 20 provides only one letter.

[hankir]

BTW, I have answer to 8d but cannot parse it.

(Also you mean EV 1240 and not 1246).

[Bobbibunny]

Thanks for that hankir, I would never have worked that out!
I think 8d is H for hard and C for cases up in the air. Definition is Extract that leaves surrender.

[Bobbibunny]

Sorry, meant CA for cases, up in the air

[DocHH]

The additional words from the other alternate clues lead to an anagram of the phrase.

[hankir]

Thanks Bobbibunny.
That is a weird way of defining that three letter word.

[saladdodger]

Thanks to all for the help ... and sorry about the wrong number for the Xword!

[devadolly]

Does anyone else have trouble with the AB collapsing on one? 33a/13a great trouble parsing...Help!