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1. Who heralds the onset of ceremonial competition for Spooner's material Ans Rice paper
2. Patient, regularly ingesting opposite, splits drug Ans Aspirin
3. Destructive bed-hopper? Old Conservative oozes sensuality Ans Lust
4. Constant sharpness about curry-house's latest dish Ans Kedgeree

3) locust - oc Old Conservative

4. K= constant; edge=sharpness; can't see the curry house bit (yet)

4) k (constant) edge (sharpness) re (about) e hous(e)'s latest being the letter e.

..................of course: re = about + e (last letter of curry-house) !!!

2 Aspirin
Even letters of pAtIeNt=AIN
around RIPS reversed

Found this on bigdave44.com:

21a Who heralds the onset of ceremonial competition for Spooner’s material (4,5)
{RICE PAPER} – competition is RACE and a PIPER is someone who heralds the onset of ceremonial (as on Burns night, for example). Take the two words and, following the custom of the Rev. Spooner, swap their initial vowels to get a material used in oriental painting.