Lovatts 134 Giant Cryptic

[Ripper]

I have answers for both of these, but I don't understand how (if you see what I mean!)
61 across: Attest to clever humour of Capones nemesis = witness. Attest is witness, clever humour is wit, but I don't get the ness.
52 down Go north after raw metal or wood Oregon ore = raw metal, go = N (north) but I can't find a wood or tree called Oregon
Sorry to be so thick!
Thanks in advance

[aelmpvw]

elliot ness is al capone's nemesis

[donny48]

61 capone's nemesis was Elliot Ness

[aelmpvw]

*eliot

[aelmpvw]

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Oregon+pine

[Lie-in King]

Oregon - another name for Douglas fir -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_fir

^ "...also known as...Oregon pine..." (Para 1)

[emmie]

not sure this is any help at all but

The sun-loving conifer has strong, relatively dense wood that serves to produce more items for human use than any other tree’s wood in the world. It is the state tree of Oregon and, along with redwood and sequoia trees, one of nature’s oldest living organisms.

[donny48]

Ore-pine is the heartwood of prepared old-growth mountain pines; the trees had their branches removed and were left to stand, the tree resins bleeding upward and out through the cut branches and thus making the heartwood more resinous

[emmie]

well done ^

[dannyk13]

https://www.google.com/search?q=oregon+pine+tree&client=avast-a-1&sxsrf=ALeKk00EqOzXMIECqz7U5W8RxcI_VhofBw%3A1619683677031&ei=XWmKYJS8Aa7psAfx26bICA&oq=oregon+pine&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAEYBTIGCAAQBxAeMgIILjIGCAAQBxAeMgIIADIGCAAQBxAeMgIIADIGCAAQBxAeMgYIABAHEB4yAggAMgYIABAHEB46BwgjEOoCECc6BAgjECc6BQguEJECOggIABCxAxCDAToLCC4QsQMQxwEQowI6BQguELEDOgUIABCxAzoKCAAQkQIQRhD5AToFCAAQkQI6BAgAEEM6CAguEJECEJMCOgcIABCxAxBDOgsILhCxAxDHARCvAToECAAQCjoGCAAQFhAeOggIABAWEAoQHjoFCCEQoAE6BAguEEM6BwguELEDEEM6BAguEApQwPIHWMHaCGDShwloAXACeACAAa0BiAGrEJIBBDIuMTWYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6sAEKwAEB&;sclient=gws-wiz

[aelmpvw]

can't see the wood for the trees . . .

[Ripper]

Thank you everyone!