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12a Moment is a "jiffy".
Remove its head letter and you have "(j)iffy"?

IFFY....thanks I get it.

re WHIMSICAL...I know there's a WHIP called a cat-o-nine tails, which is abbreviated to simply 'cat', but it's a bit of a stretch to remove the tail of WHI(p), simply because a Manx cat has no tail.

Hmm, not a good clue IMO.

19a. Nutritional supplement kept back by Svengali - or evil doctor
COD LIVER OIL

Parse? I don't understand the Svengali reference.

Reversal hidden in the clue

Reversal....of.course....just didn't see it!

We’ve all been there! This one’s rather good

6d. Roman figures old Chinese leader must keep digging
DELVING
Parse?

7d. So ugly, perhaps, wearing silly used top
ASSASSINATE
Parse?

7d AS SIN (as in ‘ugly as…’) inside ASS (silly) and ATE (used)

6d LVI (Roman figures) inside DENG (Chinese leader - Deng Xiaoping I assume)

ASSASSINATE/DELVING... nice jono, thanks.