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5d. A SORT (type, rev) in ALBS (clerical garments).
Is it garment of garments?

garments (plural)

1a. Strength available to take wooden vessel round river
FIREPOWER

16d. One banned from touchline for changing strip
UNCLOTHE

12a. Going to London then returning: like a lift?
UP AND DOWN

Parses for the above please.

1a. A wooden vessel might be a FIR EWER around PO (river)

16d. (touchline - i)*

12a. Cryptic. One always gies UP to London and DOWN from it and similarly in a lift.

Nice one jono,
The setter's FIR EWER one is a bit meh.

22a. With gun, wicked to blow away wife around St. Louis
ARMSTRONG

28a. Score disheartened players must accept? It provokes a reaction
CATALYST

Parses for the above please.

28 Tally, score - disheartened = lose the middle letter, so Taly, inside Cast. players. Catalyst, it provokes a reaction.

ARM - gun
ST as in the clue
(w)RONG
For Louis, the jazz trumpeter

CAST around TA(l)LY
btw the definition is wrong! Catalysts don't provoke reactions; they speed up ones that would take place anayway.

22 Arm, gun, wrong = wicked, lose the W, (blow away wife), rong, with St, saint, inside that. Arm st rong, Louis...