Spectator N0 2516

[Matakari]

Good day, seems like some interesting detective work required here.
Some help/answers/hints would be greatly appreciated for the following.
Thanks in advance!
ACROSS:
25 Poem’s recital did not pay (4) : ???D
DOWN:
1 They’re stealing pirate’s parrot, we hear, and they’re making chips (13, hyph) : ??T???N???E??
3 Good Joanna gives up ecstasy, sadly (6) : ??S???
4 Fuse panel without leads — it’s unnecessary and delightful (6) : L??U??
8 Like some odds, they are contradictory (8, hyph) : A?T?????
13 JFK, perhaps, let red wine breathe? (7) : ???P???
20 Sweater might be a ___ , in a way (6) : ?T???R
29 Country keeps Old Testament writing system (8) : ?O????
32 Make less substantial loss after sacking earl (5) : ?E???

[bobbinwales]

owed sounds like ode, or is it more cryptic than that with instructions

[bobbinwales]

3 GLUML(E)Y if your S is wrong

[dannyk13]

13.Airport
29.Notation

[bobbinwales]

laputa if theme is Gullivers Travels?

[Etch]

20 STEWER? - anagram of 'sweater' without the 'a'?

[bobbinwales]

1d maybe something to do with captain flint the parrot of Long John Silver

[ProfessorMaisie]

4 (f)LUX+(j)URY

[ProfessorMaisie]

1 yes, FLINT + KNAPPERS

[ProfessorMaisie]

8 ANTE POST
32 DEF(e)AT

[bobbinwales]

Flintknappers looks great, must have a letter wrong and I couldnt see where the flint bit could go

[bobbinwales]

LUXURY is right of couurse.
all done now matakari?

[johnpiper]

29d only has 6 spaces in the grid not 8
Ditto 11 across 5 not 6?

[Matakari]

Many thanks, all! I've got the first sentence of the book and am working my way through the rest of the puzzle now.

[Neveracrossword]

After last week, Matakari, it's a relief to see you're able to get on with some of this puzzle yourself!

[ProfessorMaisie]

''extracting one or two letters... from six normal solutions'' -
NO(ta)TION is the entry after extracting (ta).

[johnpiper]

Mine was a silly question. Rfm springs to mind.