Am finding this difficult and would appreciate help.
23a. Mixtures of red and yellow chains.(6) I have ?A????
29a. Get rotten colour with rouge. (5) I have ????E
Thank you both. There is an instruction that says that certain clues are definitions of words of different length and the longer word is treated in a particular way to create the shorter word. This would make sense of removing the first letters as you suggested, Calibax. Thank you again.