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15a. Rich gal has abandoned economy
FRUITY

FRU gal ITY

Whetstone, as it's the season of goodwill, I have a little favour to ask...

Could we have slightly smaller batches?! There's an awful lot of clues, it takes ages to read, and a lot of scrolling up and down to answer them (picking out the ones I can get!). It gets hard, too, to keep track of which ones have been tackled by others.

23d. Research about origin of violence- cut it out!
DELVE

DELE is apparently a proofreading instruction to remove a letter or word

17d. Places book in alphabetical order
GAZETTEER

gazetteer

a geographical index or dictionary.

Presumably this would be in alphabetical order - or it would be unhelpful

27a. Bird's flying speed
KNOT

A Knot is a small shore bird.

Thanks thus far.
Malone....I'll try limiting to batches of 6 if that helps.

I think these are remaining:
11a. Obsequious type- a dramatist's most original character in play
TOADY

12a. Brainy British gathered in corn, perhaps
BELVEDERE

7a. Silly kind of soap
SOFT

18a.  Most of best lines redesigned, after wearing out
INSENSIBLE

2d. Cause of differences withi families,for example
EVOLUTION

3d. Room to relax comfortably,away from the public
SALOON BAR

22d. Get ready for easy pickings
RIPEN

Rhanks, Whetstone. It's rather an unappealing bunch that's left!

7 A, 2 D, 3D and 22 D all seem to be clues where the whole sentence/wording defines them, with no separate pieces of wordplay.

11 A is a double definition, Toady being obsequious and Toad being the main character from Wind In The Willows, Toad of Toad Hall. For the latter definition, I'm not sure where the Y comes from!

I'll mull over 12 A and 18A.

18a - Anagram of BES(t) LINES + after IN/"wearing" as in 'the model is "in" Dior/the model is "wearing" Dior

Can't make any sense of 12a?

18 An anagram of 'best lines' without the 't' (most of best lines redesigned) with 'in', wearing (in shirt sleeeves, for example) .Insensible, out.

I've worked out this one...
11a. Obsequious type- a dramatist's most original character in play
TOADY

Obsequious type (TOADY) = A + dramatist's most original (first letter of dramatist=D). This is inside TOY (play).