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3d "audibly damn head adopting the writer's quality of joined-up writing" (11)

C?R?I?E???S. Can only see CURLINESSES for tendency to curl but not sure how this would parse.

40d "Dancer's work in oil company limited by drink" (8)

?E?O?P?R Might this be a ballet term?

Any help much appreciated

I think 3 might be CURSIVENESS
curs I've ness (head)

aerosport? port would be the drink, but I don't get the rest.

Thanks chrise for CURSIVENESS; oddly it didn't show up as an option on Quick Solve.

40 Bebopper, dancer

Thanks for that chips; although I thought a bebopper was more of a jazzer than a dancer.

My last one is 23a "Partner? One may be a fool's or a scholar's" (4)

?A?E

Again any help appreciated

MATE - terms for chess endings

Thanks chrise

Mate, partner - and it can go after Fool's and Scholar's.