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7a. Potential for success provided by Tweedledum's rattle?
FIGHTING CHANCE

22d. Bill's companion? Goodness me!
COO

1a. Clear the list of passengers for customs
MANIFEST

Parses for the above please.

Hi Whatstone,

Tweedledum and Teedledee fell out over a rattle.

To ‘bill and coo’ is to express intimacy.

Manifest is a double definition. Clear as in apparent.

Cheers as ever Jono.

10a. Excite curiosity among everyone else except husband
INTEREST

4d. Mare loves a new fence to jump
ANNE OF CLEVES

15d. Covered half-heartedly and gave stinking review to?
HATED

11a. Press article about one killer's work
JAMAICA INN

Parses for the above please.

10 IN T(h)E REST
4 not seeing all the parsing, but Anne of Cleves was referred to as "the Flanders Mare"
15 HAT(t)ED
11 JAM AN around CAIN

Very good chrise, I couldn't see those at all.

4 is an anagram of LOVES A N(ew) FENCE
Not entirely fair to abbreviate "new" in the middle of the fodder!

(loves a n fence)*

Yes, cheeky anagram that ChrisE. Thanks

16d. Time of freedom hasn't guaranteed change in E Europe
LEI

12a. Useless hero could be caught
IDLE

Parses for the above please.