Inquisitor 1468

[hankir]

Now down to final three.
Hints please.

Each clue has an extra letter to be removed.

15. Ancient realm's leaders in exceptionally detailed old images (4) ?DO?

24. Future spaceman's will almost ready and lodged (7, 2 words)
?A?D??E

Straight clue:

One who moves slowly coming back with one good reference (6)
?eg?r?

Thanks.

[ubasses]

idol?
regard

[roslyn251254]

15 defn is ancient kingdom.... look at the initial letters of ....

24 he was a comic book character ...anagram

[roslyn251254]

the slow mover was dragger, then remove a G and reverse it

[dannyk13]

//Now down to final three.
Hints please//

[hankir]

Thank you all.
Did not know about British comic book character.
37A. Had the answer but 27D has the same answer so hesitated. Also Drag is involved in 33A and 37A.

Do we have fill in the two unchecked letetrs in 20A?

[roslyn251254]

yes .... it follows the same pattern as the across answers almost