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I must have spent 24 hours on and off with this.! May as well plug on but now totally stuck. These may help.
16d Men turned up to eat ridiculous cheese. e??en?????
31d Country issues amended. ????s?. Thought it must be an anagram of issues making a country but seems not.
39a Language of litigant discharging a criminal. ???n??t. Thought it must be an anagram of litignt but seemingly not.
41a UK city guides delivered through headphones. ???d?
Thanks

39a TLINGIT

16d it's a cheese
31d anagram ...foreign name of a country
39a yes...Tlingit
41a Leeds ...sounds like /delivered through headphones ..leads

16d - name of a Swiss cheese
31d - an anagram but it gives the French name of a country
30a - the anagram you suggest. It is in Chamber Word Wizard
41a - homophone (suggested by heard through headphones) and you need a West Yorkshire city.

Ok -have got emmentaler but what is the wordplay, please?

REME (men/soldiers reversed) round mental = ridiculous.

Apart from the ones that I've had hints for, I can't solve any more of the non themed clues.
36a Carefully tilts moving ring to the end (two words) ?us???
I think I want a phrase meaning carefully that it clued by the a word meaning tilts which has the letter o in it which goes to the end. But I can't think of it.
44a Contribute towards entering engagement ???a?e .
34d More than one fogey is active hosting party . d?d???. Could be do for party , fogey could be dodo but that's as far as I can get.
37d Better introductions to others in literary themes. ?o?o? . I'm guessing that the introductions are the first letters of some words but can't see it.

I'm a 18 handicapper playing with scratch golfers!
Thanks

Loubylou, for 34, just pluralise your answer!
36 - think of knights on horseback, then move the 'o'

37 A three-letter word, noun, for 'Better' + add the 'introductions' for the other two letters. It was a new word to me, means literary themes.

44 Put a two-letter 'towards' inside a common four-letter word for 'engagement', meeting, appointment....

34d - a common 4 letter word for is active round do.