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sorry that should be 7 letters for the first part not 6

Thank you, Scarlett. If the American bimbo has an I in the 6th place, though, then so does the overall word. But I've not come across that word; the usual word - and the one given in Chambers - has an L in the 6th place place. I'm still puzzled!

Brilliant quiz really enjoying it ,but like you have now hit a brick wall ,time to put it aside for a while.

I've got over 60, but have come to a temporary (I hope!) halt.
Haven't got number 30 despite the hints above.

twinkle toes (although twinkIe is the bimbo)?

That was what I was driving at, Scarlett. Is the bimbo Twinkle? The dictionary says Twinkie.

Presumably that's where the L in twinkle comes from....taking over El Salvador That's what I've put.

Now I've confused myself even more. It does say twinkie in dictionary....think it's twink because the 'American STARTS taking over', then el backwards gives twinkle then toes.

Thanks for that, Twinsnan, but I reckoned that 'starts [t]aking [o]ver [E]l [S]alvador' gives us the 'toes' on the end of the word.

I agree with Bill. For the same reason, I had arrived at TOES as the last four letters of the answer but the fact that TWINKLETOES is not in Chambers is not a good sign, even though it is a good fit in many ways.