Independent 11,269 / Bluth

A<ctor> (“initially” means first letter only) + CROSS (=displeased, angry) + [O (=love, i.e. zero score in tennis) in THE BARD (=Shakespeare)]

<la>B (“closure” means last letter only) in ELON (=Musk, i.e. Tesla and Twitter billionaire) ; “over” indicates reversal

[<g>ERMAN<y> (=country; “after banks withdraw” means first and last letters are dropped)] in PEN (=pound, enclosure)] + <deb>T (“term” means last letter only)

*(SEE ART <f>IL<m>); “essentially” means middle letters only are used in anagram, indicated by “requires editing”

SWA<p> (=barter) + ZI<p> (=nothing, in US English); “completely power (=P)-less” means both letter “p”s are dropped

CHA (=tea) + OS (=very large, i.e. outsize)

SLAP (PALS=friends; “is returning” indicates reversal) + STICK (=criticism, punishment)

MARTY (McFly, say, from the Back to the Future films) + *(<to>M <fletche>R <als>O <joine>D); “ultimately” means last letters only are used in anagram, indicated by “busted”

<v>ETERA<n>; “dis-cover-ed” means first and last letters are dropped; “in retirement” indicates reversal; in geology, an arête is a sharp ridge

WEE (=small) in SP (=(latest) information, in UK slang); Sooty and Sweep were puppets on UK TV, created by Harry Corbett

MA (=old woman) + <silve>R (“in conclusion” means last letter only) + BLING (=jewellery)

*(OPEN AIR TO); “moving” is anagram indicator; Operation is game whereby one uses tongs to remove plastic bones and organs from a flat model of the human body

<r>UMB<a> (“naked” means first and last letters are dropped) in DO (=function, party)

*(GET ACTOR INSIDE); “somehow” is anagram indicator

<henma>N (“finally” means last letter only) in ACE (=serve, in tennis)

TUBER (=knob, protuberance); “turning” indicates reversal

Double definition: to see someone is to court them, go out with them AND to see e.g. an accident is to witness one

T<o>O<k> P<a>L<l>E (“occasionally” means alternate letters only) + SS (=ship, i.e. steamship)

EUR (RUE=Nice road, i.e. the French for road) + AS (=when, as conjunction) + IA (A1; “northbound” indicates vertical reversal)

<t>OKAYS (=wines); “topless (=entry at 4)” means first letter is dropped

[EX- (=former partner) in REAM (=paper)] + IN (=because of) + E (=drug, i.e. Ecstasy)

*(TOWN CLERK + I’D); “arranged” is anagram indicator

<p>LUS<h> (“unwrap” means first and last letters are dropped) + T<o>Y (“on vacation” means middle letter is “emptied out”)

ME (=Bluth, i.e. the compiler) in COST<c>O (=bulk-buy retailer; “losing second hundred (=C, in Roman numerals)” means second “c” is dropped)

[RE- (=on the subject of, regarding) + EM (=space, in printing)] in AGENT (=representative)

Hidden (“some”) in “shaLE Oil”

STILL; “making India (=I, in radio telecommunications) bat” in the middle (=middle letter only) means letter “i” becomes “a”

DUM<bo> (=entry at 29 across; “dumps bad small (=BO, i.e. body odour)” means letters “bo” are dropped) + [I (=island) in MED (=sea, i.e. Mediterranean); a feigned pass in e.g. rugby is dummied

[IN + E (=European)] in MARR (=political journalist, i.e. Andrew Marr)

P (=Papa, in radio telecommunications) + G-RAN (=Nana; “cycling” means first letter moves to end of word)

NI (=Belfast, i.e. Northern Ireland) + MB (=doctor, i.e. Bachelor of Medicine) + I<ssue> (“at first” means first letter only)

Hidden (‘s, i.e. belonging to) in “diploDOCus”; bones is a slang word for a doctor, hence doc