Saturday Evening Post...

[askyourgran]

I'm blaming the Tennis for not concentrating tonight:

32A Machine age (5) ----E
34a A mile from fluttering red flag (9) O-I-----E
35A Nosiness? (8) ----L-T- (Nasality?
36a Moving free, not, say, from this. (4-4) -E--/----

23d Speculator's family's capital investment (8) -E-R-K-- (Bearskin?)
28d Mad fellow becoming engine-driver (locoman?)
32d State provided Islamic leader (5) -----

Any help appreciated. Thank you.

[HowardKennitby]

34A oriflamme

[Oldred]

34a oriflamme

[HowardKennitby]

23D bearskin
28D locoman
32D calif

[askyourgran]

Thanks Howard and Oldred. 32d gives F in 36a - first word -e-f/ ---- which will give Reef knot as the answer. thanks for that.

[tommy-h]

32ac,cycle

[askyourgran]

Brilliant tommy-h. That's completed it, thanks very much, it was giving me a headache lol.

[tommy-h]

only too pleased to assist now can someone help with 3dn in todays jumbo evaporation or elaboration?clue-refinement of speech after suffering upset.

[askyourgran]

I would have thought elaboration was the word, evaporation means disappearing into thin air, where to explain something is to elaborate.