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Thanks, Whetstone.
11 Repeat you gives Ye and Ye, after Bead, drop.

5a sounds like Jacques (Tati) USE
J'accuse is a famous diatribe by Emile Zola about the Dreyfus affair.

16. MANIFEST(o) (platform) with O (last letter of two) departing.

Not sure what “at rear” is doing?

"at rear" isn't technically wrong (the O is at the rear of MANIFESTO), and I can't see a way to have the surface make sense without it.

Thanks Buddy, yes, I came to the same conclusion after I posted.

Whetstone, out of interest, are these still Times puzzles or have you moved on?

Jono...yes, these are all Times cryptics. Thanks

18d. Did Don like me visiting south of France?
ASSUMED

25a. Early Times pitch for smaller rival?
MORNING STAR

26d. Object to batter with what comes after fish
RAM

28a. German with apparently listed building
ROTUNDA

Parses for the above please.

18. AS + ME in SUD

26d. Battering RAM, and the Ram (Aries) comes after the fish (Pisces) in astrology.