Spectator 2515

[johnpiper]

Good afternoon
Wow this is a headscratcher!
I have the name and the shortened version of it but now really strugling with a view remaining clued lights and the links to the unclued lights particualrly 1 across 9 down and 48 across

Anyway all help gratefully received:
Methuselahs could muster here , aged and eccentric (5) ???I?
jack perhaps in jacket(5) ?AR??
Pope unrefined in speech (5)??FF?
Plants fine on sandy ridge (6) E????S
Is 11 A MANDRILL?

[cashier]

3 Ruffe A fish also known as pope.

[ProfessorMaisie]

OFFIE CARDI RUFFE ERICAS REFERRAL

[johnpiper]

Thanks
Had thought that 34 across was going to be NUTMEG but now it is ?a?m??

[bobbinwales]

Clue for 34a please

[ProfessorMaisie]

34a is unclued (and is the 2nd part of a two word answer - 1st part is 14a, also unclued).

[bobbinwales]

Thanks. Will leave it then. Perhaps matakari can help?

[Captain2]

Very droll, bobb. :0))))

[johnpiper]

My troubles continue....What has Paragon got to do with anything for a start?

31D Loan ones got ready for poets (7)i have ???r?s?
7D Woman widow of John, painter (5) ?NOR?
44A Water surrounding large fortified dwelling (4) ??L?
perhaps its the heat?

[Neveracrossword]

30 Imprest, loan - I'm Prest.
44 Pele, Pee, water, with L, large, inside.

[Neveracrossword]

7 Onora, woman. Ono (widow of John Lennon) +RA, artist, painter, Royal Academician.

[Neveracrossword]

Johnpiper, I've just realised you had the name - one diminutive of it, quite an old-fashioned one, means Paragon.