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24a. Left naked? Brazen it out
BLUFF
Parse? Where's the definition?

Left in BUFF - "in the buff" means "naked"

Don't understand....which word(s) in the clue is/are the definition of BLUFF?

Brazen it out means Bluff.

Cheers, malone....never heard of "brazen out" before.

12a. Farcical author king makes crosser?
TRAVERSER
Parse? I sort of get it... Reference to "PL Travers" (was she know for her farces though?). Also , why the question mark at the end?

Ben Travers instead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Travers

The author is Ben Travers and the king would be R but that doesn't account for the E, so maybe the ? indicates that it's a homophone and so works if you say it out loud, but not when you read it?

.... actually, cancel that - it makes no sense.

I think ER is Edward Rex.