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Stuck with the parsing of 3 clues so help with how you arrived at the answer would be appreciated. Many thanks.
15) Broadcast, say, rejected leading English adviser (6)
I can only come up with EGERIA.....but why?
20) Cleanse street that needs a bit of work in Lincoln (8)
ABSTERGE? St is street, erg is work but how does abe relate to Lincoln, unless Abe is a nickname for Abraham (Lincoln)?
21) Gun has succeeded in producing scare for Marlowe (4) ??S?
Totally stumped on this one. Do they mean Christopher Marlowe and is scare a misprint?

20 Yes it is.

Thank you Rossim. Perhaps I should have given the letters and gaps that I have for the other 2 clues! Bit late now but here goes......
15) E?E?I?
21) G?S?

15 egeria - female adviser
broadcast - air
say eg (for example)
E(nglish)
all reversed

21 Gash ? not sure if scare should be scar

Thank you for parsing egeria jazzgirl. Still unsure about clue 21 though! Gas gun, gat gun, ha gun. I have 10 possible answers for the clue??????

Gast, Elizabethan English, Christopher Marlowe.

Hi jazzgirl, re 15a; English in the clue comes after the reversal indicator but if the clue is given correctly I don't like "leading English" to indicate E (English) is leading.

Thank you ginge.
I have since found this

Definition of gast
transitive verb. obsolete. : scare gasted by the noise I made, full suddenly he fled— William Shakespeare

also in Chambers 12th (Shakespeare)
to make aghast, frighten or terrify