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8D Having a bit of a bulge a reason not to eat? (6)
C?N?E? Convex? How parsed?

35D Firm meeting with success in Home Counties resort (10)
WHITSTABLE
W(ith) HIT=success STABLE = firm.
What's "Home Counties" (possibly = "SE") got to do with it?

Is Whitstable not in Kent?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_counties

Whitstable is in Kent, in the home counties

Con - reason not, against. + vex (eat as in annoy) ?

Oh no! How embarrassing! I was confusing Whitstable with Whitby in Yorkshire.

Not too enamoured with vex = annoy = to eat, but it must be right.

Many thanks, AB and Kilowatt