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Why do people only ask about the ones I've got?

I can understand what the theme is but it does seem terribly arbitrary. The added and removed letters are fine, but the "rhyming" words seem to be the answer some times, and omitted from the clue in others.

19A - The leading light is made up sequentially, but with a rhyming three-letter word for M added around the answer (or so I think).

4D - remove a letter.

I can't parse 12A perfectly. I have the anagram (less 'y' presumably), but don't know how the first three and last two letters fit in. If it's a clue with a letter removed, then the rhyming doesn't come into it.

Well I've read the preamble countless times, and it still doesn't make sense, not to me, at least. I've filled in all but 6 solutions either on the premise that they sort of fit the clue in some way, or that nothing else fits the grid. Not much impressed by this puzzle. It's no wonder that the compiler remained anonymous.

livs:

4D: Remove v in vent. Then opening of ent becomes e.

Lea+smoke+e

For 12A I have H in the second position. That gives me anagram of boy or gull in the middle, but two letters in the front and two at back that I cannot explain.

8A and 10A are from the cockney alphabet, I think.
10 A is obvious but 8A is iffy.

11A would work if European is somehow equals to a letter that translates to a fruit or house.

23D: Definition is Bound. And the last letter is to be removed.

19A: I have ?T?L?N at the start.

I reckon the fruit is the house!

Now writing with a sheaf of paper propped up, covering that awful, repeating video...

Why do people only ask about the ones I've got?
LOL. It's either that, or everyone else thinks the ones I'm stuck on are pathetically easy, while I've got the ones they think are difficult.

I can understand what the theme is but it does seem terribly arbitrary. The added and removed letters are fine, but the "rhyming" words seem to be the answer some times, and omitted from the clue in others.
I'm still completely mystified by it. I know puzzles are easy if you know the answer :-), but I'm not sure if my difficulties are down to me or the compiler in this case.

I still think the first sentence of the instructions is gibberish. To what does 'not further defined' refer? A letter? Does that just mean there's a letter which isn't in the clue and is entirely unrelated to it? How does that work? Then I have to do an undefined something to it, based on something I've never heard of and can't find on the internet. This is just silly. And what is to be 'treated'? - a letter? An entire clue?

19A - The leading light is made up sequentially, but with a rhyming three-letter word for M added around the answer (or so I think).
I'm even more mystified by that. Taking the 2 letters I have (both A) and the 3-letter word for M in my Cockney list, I get... absolutely nowhere.

4D - remove a letter.
I assume it's removed from the last 4 (orig. 5) letters which are to do with 'smoke vent's opening', but I can't see what it is.

I can't parse 12A perfectly. I have the anagram (less 'y' presumably), but don't know how the first three and last two letters fit in. If it's a clue with a letter removed, then the rhyming doesn't come into it.
I was one step behind you, with the first 3 + last 2 left over but also OB - I assumed it wasn't a 'lose a letter' one. Still can't see how it works.

Sorry not to be any help.

19A - I have ?T?L?A to start.

The problem with 23D (which your comments have confirmed) is that it is also, I think, a rhyming word too.

I can't find any word for 12A with an H in the second position and the other letters I have . At least with my A, I have a protein!

11ac - J for orange
5dn - R for mo
10ac- C for.......
Last letter of 3dn is an A not an N
Don't understand first two and last two of 12ac
17ac - last three letters - who knows?
I have all the answers but some I can't explain eg 1, 2, 21, 24. First part of 19 is very clever but the second?
Hope this helps a bit.

P.s. The Y in 12ac is included in the answer.

23dn is not a rhyming one, it's a remove a letter one.
12ac - second letter is H.

livs:

4D: Remove v in vent. Then opening of ent becomes e.

Lea+smoke+e

For 12A I have H in the second position. That gives me anagram of boy or gull in the middle, but two letters in the front and two at back that I cannot explain.

8A and 10A are from the cockney alphabet, I think.
10 A is obvious but 8A is iffy.
- maybe I'm wrong about 10A, but like 11A it just seems to be a straight answer. Haven't got 8A.

11A would work if European is somehow equals to a letter that translates to a fruit or house.
- I've gone Dutch with the answer, which just seems to be a definition of 'European (royal) house'.

23D: Definition is Bound. And the last letter is to be removed.
- sorry, still can't do it.

19A: I have ?T?L?N at the start.
- I have A where you have N (and I don't have 14D or 16D)