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11d "Novelist,graduate at university,before success with a book collection" (10);
34d "I'm mean and pelt with stone" (9)
28d"Either way, it's bad, currently appropriately placed next to charged group":(2-3,9)
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28 No Win Situation
Am trying to remember the others!

11 Maupassant (MA Up...)

34 Skinflint

Thanks Malone !

The wordplay for Maupassant is "graduate" is MA, "university" is U, "success" is PASS (as in an exam), "a book collection" is A N(ew) T(estament) altogether gives MAUPASSANT

Brackendale, thanks - I realised as soon as I posted that I hadn't parsed it correctly.