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2d. Host has upset distinguished painter? Gosh!
ARMY

6d. Scottish boy in English club keeled over drinking drop of rum
NORRIE

31a. Accommodation in jail pronounced unfit
CONDEMNED CELL

11a. Dior's the last word in fashion?
DERNIER CRI

Parses for the above please.

2 Host means Army, a multitude etc. Ar is RA reversed, RA being a setter's favourite, a Royal Academician, a distinguished painter. My is ... Gosh!

11 Dior was a French fashion designer, so would say something was the Dernier Cri, lat word, in fashion, elegance etc.

5 Norrie = Scottish boy. E, English Iron, club, keeled pver = reversed, with an R, drop ofru, inside.

Thanks for the replies.

7d. Where one may find mite in hot water?
ON THE CARPET

28a. No sort of railway? Often that's so at that time!
NOEL

Parses for the above please.

7d double definition
where one may find mite;
in hot water, means being reprimanded : on the carpet

28a no + El (a type of railway)
no railways is common at Christmas


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevated_railway

Cheers JG...never heard of el or the carpet expression before.

18a. But it's no aspersion on the score
SLUR

17d. Run down by one man in Capri?
ISLANDER

20d. Second joint leads to smack
SHIP

Parses for the above please.

SLUR is also used in musical notation
I SLANDER (run down)
A SMACK is a ttype of fishing boat

Cheers chrisE