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My first attempt at this one and stuck on a few:
18A Follow script in audition for film director (4) R?E?

23A Initially Roosevelt's kept nothing for French ally (6) ?R?E?? Could be FRIEND but cannot parse it.

29A Claimed Livingstone's following trail round about (6,3) S???E? F??

24D Boring Day? Rise later (5) ??E??

Carol Reed was a film director and read sounds like (in audition) read - follow script?

Franklin Roosevelt is FR + Rien - nothing in French is friend - ally?

23a Roosveldt = F. D. include French for nothing - rien

Ken - Livingstone + spoor - trial + f - Following = Spoken for - claimed?

D- day + rise = rear = Drear - boring?

24 drear? D(ay) + rear (rise)

Thanks for all the replies. All done now.

Gbyd evening, Wynneaway,
Welcome to the Forum.
18a. - "in audition" = "sounds like" a word for "follow script" - answer is the surname of a film director.
23a. - take the first two initials of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and put them around the French for "nothing" - the answer is a synonym of "ally".
29a. - if something - or someone! - has been claimed, he/she/it has been " s...e./f..".......the Livingstone is a politician, and his first name (3) is followed by an abbreviation for "following" (1); these four letters are surrounded by a synonym for "trail" (5)
24d. - an abbreviation for "day" (1), followed by a synonym for "rise" (think horses, or ugly head!) (4) gives a synonym for "boring".
Hoping this helps! (But fully aware that in the time that I have taken to type this, somebody else will have posted the answers!!!!!)
Al Issner

Gbyd evening???????? I did of course mean "Good evening"!!!!!