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10 ac is one with a word missing, an it's a homophone. Dicky is in the sense of "I've got a dicky ticker"
5 d took me a while - you won't find it in Chambers. I's the name of a trading house. There is an extra word of 4 letters in the clue.
7d has an extra word too. Without that it's wuite straightforward - name given to a ship; "wine, craft" back to front.
Hope this helps

Only just found out what a trading house is, but I still can't work it out. I always seem to find Brummie difficult. I've got Dicky and you confirmed what I had thought for the ship. I presume elastic is the anagram of the missing words? Haven't worked out the counterpart for the redundant ones.

Down to one now (24A).

But how do you know which spelling to use in 10A - with the E or the A?

24A - An anagram of the word from 5D is the normal part of the clue, but why is "speed that enthrals I" the rest of it? Is speed bat?

I would say it is WEEK, as presumably the word 'said' comes after Dicky. I.e. time is the definition.
AJT seems to have gone offline. Still can't get the trading house - 5D.

Sorry Clevertask - I've been at another machine - ewing. 10 ac - I thought "Time, said Dicky" you think "Time Dicky said". I used a, take your pick.
Now the house. Here's a clue. Was it one of Dickens with Dotheboys Hall. Play with that - there I've given it to you.

..ad the elastic. Be careful with it - I didn't have the c, but I don't know if I'm right or not. With some of the words there is more than one anagram.

You are absolutely right - it is completely ambiguous.
I am so slow today...

So, any help with 24A?

Is speed somehow a synonym for bat?

Not a very pleasing puzzle. Too many possibilities with the anagrams. I think that a good puzzle is one where you know when you've finished that you've got it right, and you don't with this one - with 15 ac there seem to be several words that fit. I wonder what K makes of it - if he does this one.