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Pallid, sad type trembles, accepting what happens mostly (10) 

PASTYFACED (having a pale and dull complexion; pallid)

Anagram of (trembles) SAD TYPE containing (accepting) FACT (anything that happens) excluding the final letter (mostly) T

PASTY (FAC) ED*

I’ll present perfect cleavage anatomically in part (4) 

MICA (a rock-forming mineral [muscovite, biotite, lepidolite, etc] with perfect basal cleavage)

MICA (hidden word in [in part] ANATOMICALLY)

MICA

Small swelling turning up in an earlobe (6) 

PAPULA (pimple; small swelling)

(UP [turning] contained in [in] [A {an} + LAP {lobe of the ear}]) all reversed (turning)

(PA (PU) L A)<+

Art forgery getting you reverse of short time (7) 

TRUCAGE (the faking of works of art; art forgery)

CURT (short) reversed (reverse of) + AGE (period of time)

TRUC< AGE

Layer of humus not advantageous for fruit trees (5) 

MORUS (the mulberry genus of fruit trees)

MOR (layer of humus formed by slow decomposition in acid conditions) + U/S (useless; not advantageous)

MOR US

I shoot from behind piercing one boozy light horseman (8) 

STRADIOT (Venetian light horseman from Albania or Greece)

(I + DART [go fast; shoot]) reversed (from behind) and contained in (piercing) SOT (a habitual drunk person; one boozing)

S (TRAD I)< OT

Bird offering sex behind bit of furniture (5) 

PEWIT (a bird)

PEW (enclosed compartment or fixed bench in a church; bit of furniture) + IT (sex)

PEW IT

Home of large bedroom furniture, finely wrought merchandise (4) 

WARE (reference the Great Bed of WARE [large bedroom furniture] which is now on display in the Victoria and Albert museum in London)

WARE (generally, articles of merchandise, but sometimes specifically finely wrought items such as ornamental metalwork)  double definition

WARE

Line translated in successful exam result, easy (8) 

PAINLESS (without difficulty; easy)

Anagram of (translated) LINE contained in (in) PASS (a successful exam result)

PA (INLE*) SS

Sausage? Individual leaves second tucking into minced pie (8) 

PEPERONI (hard, spicy beef and pork sausage)

PERSON (individual) excluding (leaves) S (second) and contained in (into) an anagram of (minced) PIE

PE (PERON) I*

Aged hound lost glow (4)

LEAM (alternative spelling of LYAM [an obsolete {aged} term for a LYAM-hound])

LEAM (archaic [lost] term for a glow)  double definition

LEAM

Daisy acting in long dress (5)

GOWAN (the wild daisy)

A (acting) contained in (in) GOWN (long formal dress)

GOW (A) N

Musical part? One penned isn’t too complicated (8)

OSTINATO (a ground-bass [a bass part constantly repeated with varying melody and harmony])

A (one) contained in (penned) an anagram of (complicated) ISN’T TOO

OSTIN (A) TO*

Windows, round, belonging to the kitchen, half blacked out (5)

OCULI (round windows)

O (circular [round-shaped] letter) + CULINARY (relating to the kitchen) excluding (blacking out) the final 4 (of 8; half) letters NARY

O CULI

Solid bit of fat Arab served in mugful (7) 

STEARIN (the solid part of a fat)

AR (Arab) contained in (served in) STEIN (the amount held by a large beer mug of the same name, often earthenware and frequently with a hinged lid)

STE (AR) IN

Brute’s limping, hurt on hoof some time back (6) 

SURBET (to bruise [hurt] the hooves or feet with walking)

Anagram of (limping) BRUTES

SURBET*

Tenderfoot, reverse of godsend (4) 

NOOB (slang term for novice; tenderfoot)

BOON (blessing; godsend) reversed (reverse of)

NOOB<

Aaron’s converted and no longer bears name as part of old Jewish sect (10)

NASORAEANS (members of an ancient South Babylonian sect, surviving in Iraq, their religion a corrupt Gnosticism, with many Jewish and Parsee elements; old Jewish sect) – listed in Chambers under the headword MANDAEAN, an anagram of AN ANADEM as mentioned in the preamble)

Anagram of (converted) AARONS + EANS (Shakespearean [no longer] word for ‘gives birth’ [bears]) – I’m not sure of the definition here as I haven’t used the words ‘name as part of’.  Are these words part of the definition?

NASORA* + EANS

See a cruiser in trouble round Australia? This may be called for (12, 2 words)

AIR SEA RESCUE (combined use of AIRcraft and high-speed launches in SEA RESCUE)

Anagram of (in trouble) SEE A CRUISER containing (round) A (Australia)

AIR SE (A) RESCUE*

Copper replacing inner parts of strong shelter (4) 

SCUG (shelter)

STRONG with CU (chemiocal symbol for copper) replacing TRON as the inner letters or inner parts) to form SCUG

SCUG

It’s given to Alzheimer’s sufferer, certain for treatment (7) 

TACRINE (drug used in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease)

Anagram of (for treatment) CERTAIN

TACRINE*

Dress with pedigree? It could cover embarrassment for many (7, 2 words) 

FIG TREE (the leaves of the FIG TREE were used by Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis as a means of covering their nudity or embarrassment)

FIG (dress) + TREE (ancestry; pedigree)

FIG TREE

Impressionist art? Flimsy, lacking initial power (5) 

APERY (mimicry; giving an impression of; impressionaist art)

PAPERY excluding the first letter (initial) P (power) – there are two Ps so initial can refer to the first occurence of P as well as indicating the  the first letter

APERY

Edible bulb in cold pile (6)

CAMASS (the edible bulb from a tree of the same name)

C (cold) + AMASS (accumulate; pile)

C AMASS

Rising flatus with brownish outside? Its awful smell is misleading (6) 

DURIAN (foul-smelling but pleasant-tasting fruit; it’s awful smell is misleading)

DUN (brown coloured) containing (outside) AIR (flatus [puff of wind; air]) reversed (rising; down entry)

DU (IA<)< N

Treatment with chemical, foul spread in dividing portion (12) 

FLUORINATION (a chemical treatment)

Anagram of (spread) FOUL + (IN contained in [dividing] RATION [portion])

FLU* R (IN) ACTION}

Controlling nasty smell around flower (9) 

MASTERING (controlling)

MING (nasty smell) containing (around) ASTER (a flower)

O (ASTER) IN

Poet’s rubbed out two thirds of scanning lines in set (4) 

RAST (Spenserian [poet’s] word for erase [rubbed out])

RAST (two thirds of the letters [4 of 6]  in RASTER [complete set of scanning lines appearing on a television or screen])

RAST

Horse a sap crazily fed with soft potato (9) 

APPALOOSA (North  American breed of horse, usually white or grey with dark spots)

A + (an anagram of [crazily] SAP containing [fed with] [P {piano; soft} + ALOO {potato}])

A P (P ALOO) SA*

Second at top of club producing meaningless utterance (7) 

SPUTTER (meaningless jabbering)

S (second) + PUTTER ([golf] club)

S PUTTER

Gassy substance that’s put out on paper (7) 

PROPANE (gassy substance) – I suppose something defined as a hydro-carbon gas is also a gassy substance

Anagram of (put out) ON PAPER

PROPANE*

One presiding over golden age was model on vase (6)

SATURN (An ancient Roman God whose legendary reign was called the golden age)

SAT (was a model) + URN (vase)

SAT URN

Small beers just after getting stuck into meat pastries (6)

PONIES (small glasses of beer)

ON (just after) contained in (getting stuck into) PIES (meat pastries)

P (ON) IES

Ace? It’s enough when one’s despatched for nothing (5)

BASTO (in quadrille, the ace of clubs)

BASTA (enough) with the final A [one] replaced by [dispatched for] O (character representing zero or nothing) – the first A is required for the intersecting OSTINATO, so there may be no need to identify which A is replaced.

BAST O

Great Scot, filled with love, enterprising (4) 

GOEY (enterprising or go-ahead)

GEY (Scottish word for ‘great’) containing (filled with) O (character representing zero [love score in tennis])

G (O) EY

Wherein Malay sailors travel, characters regularly contributing to portolan (4) 

PROA (Oalay sailing-boat or rowing boat)

PROA (letters 1, 3, 5 and 7 [regularly contributing to] PORTOLAN)

PROA