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6a. Second home in country landing tax once
SCOT

16d. Person of honour dined with Lee - not I
LAUREATE

(I get the parse IF we're talking about Laurie Lee of Cider with Rosie fame, not General Lee ...although why either of these people is used in cryptics, I'm not sure).

1a. Wobbly teeth about to rot could be thus described?
PRECARIOUS

17a. Bird close to warming duck's back
NIGHTHAWK

Parses for the above please.

6a. S (second) COT.

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cot /kot/ (archaic and poetic)
noun
A small dwelling, a cottage

scot /skot/
noun (historical)
A payment, esp a customary tax

6 a COT is short for cottage (my Father-in-law used frequently to sing "Just a cot in Ribble valley"), and a scot was a type of tax.

16, yes, Laurie Lee

1 is it something to do with dental caries?

17 NIGH THAW (warming) ducK

1, yes I think that's it. Teeth about to rot could be described as PRE-CARIOUS.

Thanks jono/chrise.