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Hi, stuck again on a few...

3D - Literature not for the lyricist ? (5)
_ R _ S _.

5D - Slip by like a fox ? (5,4)
_ R _ S_. _ _ S _.

7/12A - Bitter Sweet (4,4)
ACID _ R _ _.
Any and all help appreciated.

7 acid drop

not sure of the 1st 2 but,

prose

brush pass(or past)

acid drop(a boiled sweet)

Thanks Trevor and ChrisG. appreciated.

Stuck only on one more...

29A - Curt heard it being lamented. (4)
R _ E _.

Thanks for digging me out....

...i prefer Brush Past - for what it's worth.(i do know the phrase 'can i just brush by? meaning 'i don't want to bother you but can i get past you'[)

My mother in law is so fat she went to cross the road, I swerved to avoid her and ran out of petrol!
wey-hey - who doesn't miss the 1970's?

Rued(sounds like(lamented-said out loud)Rude)

made a right pigs ear of that...
Rued = Lamented
sounds like (heard) Rude/curt.

Hi Trevor, love the mother in law joke, still laughting to that !! Rued, so obvious when explained. As for Brush Pass/Past... clue says slip, instead of slipped, so pass rather the past , confusing myself now ! Jury is out. Thanks for the assistance.

Surely it's PAST:pun on "tail went by"(passed) and infinitive "to brush past"(with preposition spelling)---no?