1down = Slogan caused Elia's card-player to weep? (6,3): it has to be BATTLE CRY (B?T?L?,C?Y), but I have no idea why? Anyone enlighten me, please, then maybe I can go and get a life...
Last two: 19d = Arse gives rise to waffle and viscous mixture (6) I have ???B?G which I suppose suggests GASBAG but I don't quite see it; and 21ac = Bureaucrats: "terrible leader, Miliband ultimately,...
Groan: I stupidly left the last one last night and here is it again this morning and I'm still stumped:
24d) Child has first to grow (4) S-O-.
Help!...
13d: Miserly person embarrassed current collector.
Last one, and it must be CHEAPSKATE (?H?A?S?A?E) but I can't parse the "embarrassed current collector" bit......
Last one and it's doing my head in - 25ac: Symbols awarded to different grades of production for cinema (4,5) I have F-L-,S-A-S. It would seem to be FILM STARS, but I have no idea why. Help, please?...
12ac: A man's man, we hear (and his dog). I have HE?R - I think HERR (Thomas Mann = German; maybe sounds like "hair", of the dog?) but I'm not at all clear about the parsing, and it's my last clue....