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45a Resistance blocking rise after membership fee set at lower level? (8)

I have SUB?R?U? pretty clearly SUBGROUP can't see where resistance kicks in..

34a One can start to unfasten wheels (4)
I have U?I? 99% sure it's UNIT but where do the wheels fit in?

50d Items for eating - perhaps they are to be clapped in (5) I have I?O?S Again 99% sure it's IRONS but can't reconcile first part of clue!

39a Chemist put concoction in front of major (6) L?E?I? - don't know this one!

Thanks

rise - go up. r is resistance.

I have subgroup and unit but little idea why!
However knives and forks are eating irons.
Liebig was a chemist with a condenser named after him - no idea on that either!

unit. can - tin. It wheels - spins round

Liebig.. Concoction - lie. major - big

just seen concoction=lie big=major
Doh

Thanks Molly and AJT!