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Got three to solve all connected top centre.

17a Brilliant grown-up not admitting daughter is a failure (7)

D - - - - - T

Hoping that will help me the other two unsolved clues.

Thanks in anticipation


Eric

Default, a failure. Def= brilliant and Ault is Adult, grown-up, with the D of Daughter.

...typo - it should, of course, have been "Without the D..".

I can see how AULT is derived, but I would ever have got the DEF brilliant link.

Many thanks.

The F helped me get 13d, but still stuck with 6d Fogeyish gold who may be reluctant to relinquish duties on train? (3,5)

O-D -U-R-

I'm thinking OLD -U-RY

RY for train

Old Guard (Fogeyish FOLK who...)

...and Old Guard are of course Fogeyish folk. One Old Guard could be a retired railway worker.

These musings are to distract me from the spam...