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1d Cask used to catch errant roosters - does it help to keep palms upright? (12)
11d What neutral merchantman had in South-East, a dance and frolics (12, 2 words)
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1d Cask used to catch errant roosters - does it help to keep palms upright? (12)

Another word for cask followed by an anagram of roosters. And the palms are trees...

The first is an anagram of butt - for cask - and roosers.
11d is SEAPASSPORTS:- SE-PAS-SPORTS

Thank you bullfrog and AJT

Sorry - I missed the t in roosters

I'm still missing a few answers, but there are also three answers I have whose clues I don't get. 31A: I have the M and the processed OIL, but what does China have to do with it? Does it have something to do with PAL? 34A: I have the rash but don't know how I got it! 4D: I have the sound but blundered the blunder.

china is another word for mate or pal

tetter - abstainer = TT. Teer is to plaster

Thanks! I had TETTER, and wondered whether teetotaller figured in the clue (but didn't know teer). I had no idea that China meant pal- ah, the difficulties that British puzzles present for Americans...

aristophanes,
China Plate - Mate.
from cockney rhyming slang.
ps. Plates are feet,from plates of meat.
...strange!