Possible Clues:

• Go back again, a month back, to mid-September
• Withdraw, about to give up
• Go back, you so-and-so, by the sound of it, and do your work again
• Soldiers surrender and withdraw
• Go back and do the sowing once more, by the sound of it
• Spirits of tin, perhaps, by the sound of it
• Withdraw or slope backwards
• Get back to do the sowing again, by the sound of it
• By the sound of it go away and do the sowing again
• What 32 across do