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45a. Living beside town, heard vagrant's good in a fight (5,2,3,4) Quick on the draw, buy why?

Living is quick (biblical, old meaning) + (town heard)*

thank you, never would have thought of Living as Quick. maybe because at my age it rarely is.

Hehe, indeed! That meaning of quick survives only in idioms such as “the quick and the dead” and “cut to the quick” as far as I know.

The rest of QUICK ON THE DRAW is an anagram of TOWN HEARD. But this is the first time I've come across VAGRANT being used as an anagram indicator.

Please can anyone explain 41a? The clue reads:

One's perhaps served left-leaning 39's popular goal (6,4). (I think the 39 refers to the answer to 39a, which is LIBERAL PARTY.)

The answer looks like TENNIS BALL (= one's perhaps served), but I don't see how the rest of the parsing works. All help gratefully received!

It’s a bit obscure. Tennis ball is correct. Read backwards, ie to the left, it’s L (Liberal) LAB S (Party’s (as in Labour Party’s) IN (popular) NET (goal)

Masterly understatement - a bit obscure.

Geez! Obscure or what? Very many thanks.