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I think these are correct but the parsing eludes me.....

11a. Flipping, flipping short clergyman (3) - REV (Clergyman) - I thought this was 'REVersing' (flipping) shortened , but that doesn't explain why 'Flipping' appears twice, so I'm obviously missing something.

20d. Eastern port making grandad queen then? (7) - NANKING (Eastern Port) - It looks like 'Grandad' becomes NAN and 'Queen' becomes king, but I can't see the instruction to switch them - or, I could be comlpletly wrong.

11a. flipping=over, flipped & losing o

Hi Brendan (and mattrom)
11:is it not more likely flipping when used as emphasis
= ver(y) flipping gives rev

20 then? implies if grandad is queen, nan, his partner, is king.

Hi Ginge, hi Mattrom, both suggestions for 11a. seem equally plausible. Regards 20d., I'm not sure I follow you Ginge. How could the 'Grandad' be queen, he's the wrong sex?

You're being too logical and I probably didn't explain it fully;
The clue states "making grandad queen then?"
So grandad is already queen and "then?" implies nan is king, in terms of how the clue is written " making nan king".

Re 11 I don't think over is a synonym of flipping, perhaps "turning over".

Right, I think I follow you Ginge. If 'Grandad is queen' then it follows that Grandma or 'Nan' would be king. Took me a while but i got there in the end. Many thanks Ginge, and thanks again Mottram.

I was thinking of "over" in the sense of "more than" or "beyond", but it's more than likely that ginge's explanation is what the setter had in mind.