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9 Across, Repeats "No bad language" (9)

11 Across, Hob needs help in getting prepared for burial (4,3)

12 Across, Topless show, with boobs endlessly out-it shows some neck (7)

14 Across, Gets involved in complications if folk-jazz band's dropping piano intro (9)

Compiler - HOB

Many Thanks

11, L aid out ?

11. Yes rusty, hob is a lout.
9. Esperanto, (repeats no)*

Thanks, Ginge!
New to me!

12a GIRAFFE

GAFFE around (a)IR

12. Giraffe, (a)ir in gaffe(s)

Sorry, Ginge's parsing is correct.

I inadvertently left the S off in GAFFE(s)

14a ENTANGLES

Apparently there is a "fol-jazz" band called (p)ENTANGLES

Pentangle (or The Pentangle) are a British folk-jazz band with an eclectic mix of folk, jazz, blues and folk rock influences. The original band was active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and a later version has been active since the early 1980s.

Well done brendan, I was trying to use (P)ogues somehow but any form of folk music is alien to me.

Well done, Brendan!
I vaguely remember them!