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Sorry... Clue is 'Fourth letter leaving Maidenhead for Jerusalem? (4)'

Actually I've just realised how it works as 'fourth'. When I said surely it should be 'fifth', I was thinking of letters of the alphabet. If you have Maidenhead as a five-letter word and remove the fourth then you get 'Jerusalem?'

What is the answer to 5d then?
10 letters
Success seldom condemned in United states

Seems the answer is:

Coupledoms

Coup = success; ledoms is an anagram (condemned) of seldom.

Not one of Arachne's best IMHO.

Help please. 22down fight ever after for absent love (4)
I have F?A?. It's my last one and I need to go and cook supper!
Wordless

FOR AY, drop the O

Ever after for gives FORAY - lose love (ie zero/o) to give FRAY.

So obvious when someone else does the work for you! Thank you!

Wordless

Just two left in top left, completely stumped:

1D. Stephen Sondheim's response to the theatre administration (10) .N?S???S?A Looks like Anastassia, one of his numbers but where's the parsing?

13A Extremely habitable address for Maria and Chuck (5). .?. .?A.?E

Sorry, typos in 13A - Should have been - - A-E

(operating) theatre administration : anasthesia
(American spelling)