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Missing nothing, could be licence to hold someone desperate (8)

Missing nothing - serving as both definition and indicator of removal of letter "O" from...
Could be licence - P(O)ETIC
Someone desperate - DAN (Desperate Dan, wild west character in British comic magazine "The Dandy)

Acted in first panto, confusing by checking everything (8)

Def checking everything
Anag indicator confusing
Anag fodder acted in p (first letter of panto)

PC Ted in a crash with pedestrian (8)

anag PC TED IN A, Pedestrian = Def

Dull, quiet journalist gets distraught when father leaves (8)

Def, P + ED + (FR)ANTIC

Be particular, explain details and never treat information casually from the start. (8)

Forgot to add acronym!

Fussing over spent coin? [8]

Perfectionist content of hyped anticlimax. (8)

Hidden in hyPED ANTIClimax

btw tatters @17
Could you parse, please?

Extremely dedicated social worker in epic struggle against any deviation from the norm (8)

Extremely dedicated - d
social worker - ant
in - insertificator
epic struggle(anagrind) - pe/ic
Defn - against any deviation from the norm