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Out-and-out gamble loses some coin(5)

Flutter - fl

Speak of headless Jabba at emergency room (5)

Paul@15 ah yes, thanks for spotting the typo. Perhaps it’s my head that’s a little “loose” 😂

Absolute madman loses his head (5)

German parent goes topless. She's out-and-out! (5)

(Sorry. 🤭)

Lost initial signs of speech impediment, so can speak clearly (5)

paul & jono, regarding "loose", in my last few years in academia I also saw a sharp rise in the number of students who used "loose" when they meant "lose", to the extent that by the time I finished I saw it as often as not. Since language evolves, and words ultimately mean whatever people mean them to mean, I predict that within a generation or two jono's clue will be the standard usage.

Voting starts at noon your time, and we will see who wins and who looses,

Speak of halibut terrine. (5)

Thus complete, Fee Waybill, for instance, translated Et tu, Brute? (5)

Composite anag of TUBE + UTTER

Fee Waybill was (is?) vocalist / frontman of the Tubes.

Buddy - sadly you may be right - particularly as teachers increasingly often no longer adhere to previously accept4d norms. Formal grammar lessons are but a reloc of a bygone age. What was your field?

(late night typing...)