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can someone help please, do these seem correct?

12a 4
nothing works? sorry
????
oops?

16d 3
its hard to hold on to this catch
???
eel?

19a 13
bringing everybody in, trim wood and stuff to make
figure
parallelogram??

sorry about double post am having major problems posting, screen keeps hanging.

12a yes
O = nothing + ops = works

19a yes
Pare all log ram

Obviously all goes inside pare

Eels are metaphorically notoriously slippery!

Does that give any letters for 16d ?

Chrise has a very good point

it is eel, i am just unsure about some of these clues
like
15a 8, 5
a banger ensued after roasting, from this,
a?e??e??/?????
aberdeen angus
seems most likely?

1a 8
bypass urban road, say, and you'll get abuse
possibly,
??s?????

15 looks like an anagram of "a banger ensued"