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Well, I've managed most of it, but I have several annoying and scattered gaps.

Assistance with the following may improve my mood :

15A - Abandon party, withdrawing permanently (3-4)
???-?O?D
12D
It follows increase in fare (4)
S?U?
30D - Holds small book up containing Listener and unfinished Jumbo (4,4)
B?A? ??G?
42D - Russian, possibly very slow in retreat (8)
??A?I??? (VLADIMIR?)
&
54A - Coming to like people featured in a comic (7)
A?????G

I just hope everybody hasn't gone to bed early!

12 Soup, fare
So, it follows +Up,increase.

30 Bear Hugs, holds.

1t5 FOLR GOOD

FORGO, then DO backwards

Where did that L come from?

54 Awaking, coming to. Wag is comic +kin is 'like people '+ 'a' is in the clue.

Malone & Chrise,

Thanks very much for such speedy responses.

I'd been staring at AWAKING for some time, but nothing had clicked - I think the grey cell was suffering from fatigue.

I'll wrestle on with the three remaining with an air of renewed optimism.

42. Vladimir is V, very +Lair, retreat +Dim, slow.

Malone,

Thanks for confirming my dim thinking.

In the interval I've just worked out the two remaining others, so I can crawl off to bed with nothing much else to think about.

Glad I could help, Bear of lb - though my parsing can be iffy! I found this quite a tough crossword today.