Variety: Puns and Anagrams

I REALLY LOVE P&A and generally solve all or most of them - several hours later perhaps, but I'm very persistent - but Sunday's stumped me more than some - so it must have been really difficult, right? - even when - by checking, and rechecking, trial and error - I got them all, I had to read WordPlay to understand such things as: the "Y" in 8D, 59A and "nearly all of" in 15A; you generally have to consider every word in the clue, eh? Generally anagrams I can do but the puns take longer and sometimes I don't get them even when I see the answer. but I still don't understand the logic for 11D a-tall, and had to look at 18A and 19A and several times before I think I understood. But I really loved: 33D, 33A and think that the P&A cruciverbalists - now why does that give me a spelling/typo error - in THIS column? - must be very clever indeed.

please explain 27A. I don't get the clue or "saga" as the answer.

One more clarification please. I understand the anagram for 33A but don't get how class and sluggard are connected

Is the answer for 29A Renee simply because Renee is contained in renewable?

I agree that nonagon is weak; nana is common, nona not. And "gon" for "gone" is quite a stretch. But I'm still struggling with 44D. Stampsdeer? What in tarnation does that mean? I think it's a relative of "find a stranger in the Alps". (See the Big Lebowski if that doesn't make sense.)

I started P&A a few month s ago and despite the infrequency of its appearance I'm hooked good and solid. How do I know that? Well, we get the newsprint version, and ... I do it in ink. A lot of admirable puns here --12D in particular. Had trouble understanding 8D until the Y at the end was explained. Also 44D -- the "fill-in-blanks" clue was tough. More, please!

I don't get 15A though I see that it is an Anagram of Meg Ryan. I have ?? about that top left grid, doesn't make sense, the rest was pretty straightforward.

"The counterpart to “Gramps” is NONA, and apparently she has also taken her leave, i.e., NONAGON." The counterpart to "Gramps" can only be NONNA, not NONA. It's Italian for "grandma," and the double N means a difference in pronunciation from single N. The N sound is held perceptibly longer. By convention, the GON part refers to the sound of GONE, and NONA is supposed to be the sound of NONNA. But it isn't. And I don't think this is an example of the tamale trap, in which we incorrectly impose foreign language rules on words as they are used in English. Because NONNA is still not yet an English word; its meaning as "grandma" pretty much still is used exclusively by or in the context of Italians or Italian Americans. But really, I guess it's close enough to pass muster, after all, a pun doesn't have to be exactly the same pronunciation as the word it substitutes for. I'm just a little at odds with the sentence from the column that I led with above.

I Love me a good PandA. Not gonna bam(BOO) this one.

The Mini, which I enjoy daily, has a unique characteristic. Multi-word answers are NOT clued as such. The same goes for hyphenated answers such as TA-DA (which by the way appeared twice very recently).

I look forward to Puns and Anagrams every month and this one didn't disappoint! If I only I could translate success with P&A to the Cryptic . . .

And while I'm here, I enjoyed today's Variety Spelling Bee. (Semi spoilers below) I added TITIAN the color, PIPPIN the apple, and ATTAINT (a legal term I faintly recall) to the list of words.

OK, I got ARC, DOE, HAITI, TUB, THERE and NINES. (The latter only after first putting in NEINS and “Checking” it.) That was that. Six words. Many times I have gotten less. After “Revealing” the rest of it, can anybody explain 45A? I mean, anything that follows anything is NEXT, but…….… And also 51A and 6D?