Dear all,
Gosh, I am surprised that you are finding it difficult and feel I must apologise. Sorry.
I was convinced that this would just be a bit of fun for you all as I thought up most of it while sitting on the checkout at Tesco. I always struggle to solve the cryptic quizzes set by eg Children of Fiji and Lincs and Notts ambulance - they are what I call difficult ! and I rarely finish them all.
The answers are really quite simple once you make the connection, none of them are what I would call obscure ie �all of their great uncles had a dog called Brian�. In several cases if you google the names of the personalities in the group you should get the answer. The non-personalities are basically say what you see, don�t try to go too deep into what else they could be, though 15d is representative of a feeling rather than literal.
I hope this helps without any real clues given away and good luck to you all.