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Can't do the right hand side. Any help gratefully received with:

4ac Scotsman heading off in smart footwear (8)

9dw A means of stabilising vehicle that's drawn up in late afternoon? (8)

Thank you!

4 Stocking - Jock minus the J inside sting (smart)

9d: fixative = a means of stabilising (def)
taxi (reversed) - vehicle drawn up
five - late afternoon

Thank you both! Can get going now

Well, I hope you make quicker progress than I am doing.......!

Done a lot of the left hand side! Not the right for some reason.

Also think 5dn is TEMPI or TEMPO - I get the Temp bit from casual worker but not the ending

It is not casual worker,
it is casual employment, which can be called temping.

Done the top half!

Tempi
it's temping minus ng

Thank you Rusty / I should read the clues more carefully!

Snap, Rusty!

but now I'm stuck on two interlocking clues......
18A: Nudity in California, perhaps, could make her - unemployed (9)
L?U?D?E??

17D: Demobbed South Africa marine's stopped going outside (8)
D???R?E?

The last letter of 18a is the same as the third letter of 17D

Can anyone help? and parse them , too, please?