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Nice jono, thanks for the help.

10a. Uttered in a death rattle
DEMORALISE

28a. Gallery idols
GODS

1a. Character study, perhaps
COMPOSITION

9a. Derisive call back, almost getting rocket
BOOSTER

Parses for the above please.

10 ORAL (uttered) in DEMISE (death)
28The GODS are the highest seats or gallery in a theatre
1 double definition, character and study (musical)
9BOO and STER(n) (back, almost)

Nice chrise....you know a lot of stuff.

10a. Employ one to apply squeeze, entering dodgily-acquired property in Little Venice?
HOUSEBOAT

9d. The other relative question for art house - why fake?
HOW'S YOUR FATHER
(yes it's an anagram but where's the definition?)

5d. Gives and takes orders, I'm first to read Porterhouse Blue?
MOTHER SUPERIOR

28a. Unpleasant people right to present tale of woe
SOB STORY

Parses for the above please.

10a. Use (employ) + boa (a snake, so one who might squeeze) in hot (as in stolen, I think, doggedly acquired?). Little Venice is where canals meet in London so where a house boat might be found.

28a. I think this is SOBs (sons of bitches) + TORY

5d. (I’m R porterhouse)* anagrind is ‘blue’

9d. ‘The other’ as in sex, then ‘relative question’ (literal) and then the anagram

Thanks jono... That last bunch were not very satisfying as clues.