Iq 1681

[hankir]

Wordplay has one extra letter.

19 Character continued to protect cold bit of body sticking out (9)

21 Chum hugging troubled dean – old wiper away of the tears? (9)

Thanks.

[Eagledave]

Both pretty tricky as words are unusual. Probably worth waiting for some crossing letters.

Definitions are for a bit sticking out of your arm and an old word for handkerchief respectively.

[hankir]

Thanks eagledave.
Had not heard of the 6 letter word for Chum.

For 19a, Is character 6 letters and continued 2?
Since down clues in some case have to be jumbled, difficult to get crossers.

[ProfessorMaisie]

19 - Is a word I haven't seen before, hankir - it starts with 'character' in the theatrical sense (4 letters, the first letter 'r' is extra) + a two word phrase for 'continued' (3,2) around C(old).

[hankir]

Thanks ProfessorM.
Two words never knew before.

[hankir]

I have a few down answers.
The ones in SE corner proved easy to enter.
Others have to be jumbled.
Need hints on 1d, 4d, 7d.

is 34a anagram of first two words?

[Neveracrossword]

Hankir, yes for 34- but with a letter removed.

[hankir]

Thanks NAC.
I thought so but the answer does not make sense with "one extends somehow"

[Neveracrossword]

1 and 4 Down both get entered normally. 7 D is hidden in the clue, then scrambled. In 1 D the 'butter' is an animal, after a four-letter word for 'succeed in getting'.

[Neveracrossword]

Hankir, thanks. In 34 you'll have a noun, a thing, object, that extends, stretches things.

[hankir]

Thanks NAC.
Got all 3.