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Ok, I give up!

29a Polish live inside and drink here?
----e-n

(I don't know what I'm looking for here. I don't get it!)

25d Small, confused student dropped out, needing help.
-l--

17d Bookend?
-p-l-g--
(apologia fits but why should it be...?)

hi laura, 29A is SHE(BE)EN

Thanks, Bri. Never heard of Shebeen.

Still doesn't help with the other two even with xtra letters!

17d is now
-p-l-g-e
Bookend?

and

25d -l-s

Small, confused student dropped out, needing help.

17d = epilogue
25d = alms (anag of small without the student - L)

Doubt if it's worth sending in anyway. This is our third day without post.

thanks. You're a Saint!

I dont know why I didn't get those obvious ones. Blind spots. Once I ask for help, I stop thinking!

What's 12a?

Possible result, alas, of a pressing engagement?

-C---H-D

Reg. - 12a Could it be \'crushed\' ?

Reg - I think 12a is scorched - what happens when you leave the iron on your shirt for too long (or so the wife tells me!!)

Wonderful, thank you.

Taht just leaves:

6d ...

Government heads, they must not be crooked (6)

R _ L _ R _

And 16a ...

First born up north, then died in ditch out east (4)

_ U _ D

Any ideas?

Hi Reg,
RULERS,and BUND which is a ditch in India and
elsewhere in the East.
Regards,
Jerry