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[Amelioratio]

Hard this week!!

11A - Compiler's job situation - setting? sitting?
11D - gyrating artiste, person on to peel off? stripteaser?

14D In foreign films, here's the Cotton Club under Calloway at last **l******

18D - Six footer caught disease - succeeded escaping it at last c*****t

24A - Farm animals as soup ingredient (5)

And is 21D Mitre?

[Mamyalynne]

24a stock

[GRM]

11a setting
11d strip teaser
14d bollywood
18d cricket
24a stock
21d mitre

[baitress]

11a is setting.
11d is stripteaser. anag of artiste pers(on) on to peel off.
18d is cricket . c+ rickets minus the s from succeeded.
14 down is bollywood. boll(cotton) + wood (club) with y - last letter of calloway in front of wood