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A "galley proof" is used in printing.
Galley sounds like gali.

Cheers rusty, never heard of that before....The amount of "stuff" you learn doing crosswords!

27a. Lead-free transport gets attention
EAR
Parse?

27, My suggestion is,
To transport something can be to bear it.
Free the lead letter in bear and you have ear.
Ear gets attention.

27...looks good thanks....I was barking up the wrong tree completely....I thought it was to do with removing Pb (lead chemical symbol) from a longer word to get the answer.
Don't like the clue, if I'm honest.

14a. Put up limited number, with wife maybe having to keep home
NOMINATE

parse?

15a. Broadcast ends in violent skirmish- would you believe it!
STREWTH

Parse?

Put up limited number, with wife maybe having to keep home

Put up (as a candidate) = definition Limited number = NO then IN inside MATE

Broadcast ends in violent skirmish- would you believe it!

STREW + last letters of violenT skirmisH

14a NO (abbr for number) + MATE (wife maybe) and IN (home)

5d. Workman cut by smug townsman
OPPIDAN
Parse?