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14a Pick and mix this with woad to make talcum powder (8) p?e?t?um. Must be plectrum, but why?
19a Don's back touring Germany and Spain (6) r?a?e?
23d Buster perhaps appears in a token cast (6) ?e?t?n

19 Reader, don(professor). Rear with D, Germany and E,Spain.

23 Buster Keaton
anag. a token

23 Keaton (Buster,actor). Anagram of Token +A.

Thanks Malone and Cerasus.
Re 14a where I said that it must be plectrum, I'd just like to check that I have 7d correct. "It's vital that a retired factory worker drinks strong wine". I have the answer as "all important" with the "p" being the start of the word plectrum. The e, t, u and m are definitely right, so could it be anything else?

'Talcum powder' is an anagram of 'woad + plectrum', so PLECTRUM is correct

A factory is a "mill", reversed is , a llim.
Strong wine is "port".
Worker is "ant".
All important looks the biz.