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29a "Start hoarding carbon (like gold dust)" (6).

I have ?C?R?E which looks like it must be SCARCE for like gold dust, but don't quite see the parsing

Any help much appreciated

Start as in scare.

Thanks ginge; I was stupidly looking at the C in the wrong place.

Struggling with 20A
A???N?

It might help to give the clue

Assent - ass as in fool, ENT as in hospital department, the whole as in royal assent.

Have one of my own, 16 across. Thinking AFTER but where does Bloomer come in? Any ideas?

I've got ASTER for that being a flower (bloomer)
A STER almost STERN (behind)

I had this as "Aster"

I hate to be a big party pooper, but it really would be good if people would give the clues! Not everyone has a copy, but we do like to see clues from other publications.

PS And there's mention of this in the site guidelines.

One has me stumped
10A Love, second rate, familiar old president (4)
I think it could be BOBO although I don't know why unless it refers to President Bobo the president of Botswana