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Yes, you're right, Dryden.
It's another one of these quantum clues where you start off solving one state of the clue and end up solving another. The wordplay is : FILE cut, ie FIL, with LISTER for 'one that does leaning'. However, 'one that does planing' serves for the definition.

Yes, that sounds like Schrödinger's cat . Surely we can't have two different spellings applying in the same clue?

Dryden, on 30 you can check what your first 4 letters are short for, then check the longer version where you will find Tory.

In 18 I have HUGENESS but can't see how gene = chagrin.

gêne

Thanks! I'm struggling with quite a few clues particularly 9/20.

My solve has been very much stop-start, Unclued. I've still got a bit to do in SW and NE corners. If you think you have the first Playfair code (from the pairs of letters encoded in clues) okay so far, it's worth working all the way through each paired clue to see where other encodings have likely taken place. That process has solved quite a few clues for me.

Thanks Ozzy, but I cannot find what you are pointing me to. The first four letters of my answer to 30 make a Latin word meaning 'life' that isn't short for anything. Since nothing else fits, and the word matches the clue's definition, I don't think I can have a wrong answer. I don't have the latest Chambers, so perhaps it's a feature of that.

Dryden, my onelook search earlier returned me only 4 possible answers (assuming that I entered the correct parameters :) - fetalized, metalized, totalized and vitalized. And I think I like second letter 'I' ...I've pencilled that one in and moved on. Though connection between Vita and Tory ? If memory serves me right, amassed capital represents the past, i.e., death; expression and change represent life...

I haven't got either answer of 6,22 or 7,13.

Can someone give me a hint?

Thanks.