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Having trouble parsing these, help appreciated.....

14a. Girl, crossing, finally looks to right and left (6) - GLORIA (Girl)

It looks like (crossin)G + LO (looks) + R(ight) but that leaves IA unparsed, so it must be wrong.

54a. Happy for one in the process of difficult retrieval in court? (6) - MIDGET (Happy for one)

I think this is a reference to one of the Snow White dwarfs, but I'm not sure.

3d. Preacher's mean, blocking feasible proposal (9) - GOSPELLER (Preacher)

10d. Name source of inspiration poet's to unlock? (8) - CALLIOPE (Inspiration)

23d. A working party outside elated to get my letter (but not present) (8,8) - ABSENTEE LANDLORD (Letter, but not present)

30d. Offensive Dutch, English or Spanish supporters lobbed bottles (4) - PUSH?

10 Calliope

Name - Call
Source of inspiration - i
Poets to unlock - ope
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ope

14 Gloria

(crossin)G + LO (looks to the right) + AIR (looks to the left, ie reversed)

23d A bee (working party ????) around Sent (elated).
land (get). lord (my - oh my, o lord, cripes).?

3d feasible proposal = goer (it's a goer). mean = spell.

30 Push ( an offensive)

I can see Push contained backwards - so 'bottled and lobbed' in Spanis(H SUP)porters)


But I may be wrong.

i'd buy that Mamya, a lot of padding in that clue.
re midget. mid = in the process of.
difficult retrieval in court = get, beats me. tennis maybe?

I think it is tennis yes.

That's fantastic, many thanks Mamya and Trevor - any thoughts on GOSPELLER, I can't parse a single letter!

Trevor's done that one.

Sorry Trevor, saw it just as I was posting. Thanks again.