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30a Bold sort of artist failing to get going after dawn (10).

This one must be 'adventurer' but I'm struggling to parse the back end. I can see that 'dawn' will be 'advent' and the artist may be Turner but I'm failing to get 'failing to get'! (Or it may be failing to get going.). How does that represent the loss of an 'n'? Or maybe I'm way off target.

Might the artist be (D)urer?

Advent and Durer (artist), with the D dropped/failing to get going?

Ah yes. Thanks Chrise and Malone. It would have helped if I hadn't tried using the t from advent again in my parsing. Oops.

13a Stop antagonistic French inspector getting decapitated (5)
Avert? Who’s the French inspector?

Javert… Les Mis

Thank you

SB, that was the last one I got. The dreadful combination of a proper noun and a deletion, served with a side order of a dodgy definition. I've always understood AVERT to mean AVOID rather than STOP.

Chambers gives one definition of 'avert' as ' (to) prevent', so it seems reasonably OK to me.