Daily Telegraph Toughie Friday August 30Th 2013

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1ac Perhaps daily writers display vanity about rejected manuscripts (8) P???????
5ac Domestic area unresolved, in the being neglected (2,4) ?? ???? tv room?
9dn It's a function to generate specialised derivatives by differentiation (4,4) ???? ???l stem cell?13ac Saucy bird casing front of Alan Partridge's given lodging? (4-4) ???? ?r??
18ac Making group of Muslim states less able, a dispute (5) a???e argue?

[bibblebub]

1a) pressmen = 'preen' outside 'mss' reversed

[bibblebub]

18a) argue = ar(ab lea)gue

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Thank you 13ac is now ?e?? ?r??
6dn Mostly not suntanned (apparently) around one's solid hairline? (7) ??I???? fairish? whitish?
7dn Caucasian trailblazer isolated in the interior (5) ??e??
8dn Seed waster accepted by others in sympathy (8) ??s?????
The first letters of above clues will be the 2nd 4th and 6th letters in 5ac

[bibblebub]

13a) pear tree

[bibblebub]

7d) Azeri (hidden in clue)

[bibblebub]

5a) au pair = a + up (in the) air

[bibblebub]

6d) unibrow = unbrow(n) ouside of i

[bibblebub]

8d) resonant = 'onan' inside 'rest'

i'll let you look up the meaning of onan http://www.thefreedictionary.com/onan

[catsrcool]

Thanks bibblebub that just leaves 12ac Note about bearing weapon in poem climaxing at Flodden (7) ??b?i?n starts with m if stem cell is right

[bibblebub]

Marmion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmion_(poem)

[catsrcool]

Thank you bibblebub

[bibblebub]

you're very welcome

I didn't think that I had a hangover before seeing that lot but now I know different