Rt 30

[redglenys]

Need help to get started
11a burn necessitates loss of large melon.(10) Guadeloupe?
12a postmaster left holding the alarm again (6,6)
18a course conditions to affect thriving business (5,7)
20a got valued to move opening estimate for tourism book (10)
24a reportedly scrap layer of garment (9)
2d old picture in indecent state (4,6)
5d ladies' group paid Ike to divert source of information(9)
7d Frenchman,good person to love an artist (12)
13d keeping watch over party in Africa (10)
17d best to clobber TV programme (3,4)
21d over tiny contents of inner tube (4)

[Neveracrossword]

20 Travelogue, tourism book.
If you get the answers to four or five of these, would that not give you lots of letters for some of the others?

[Neveracrossword]

2 Blue Hawaii,old film, picture. Blue,indecent and Hawaii, state.

[Neveracrossword]

11 Charentais, a type of melon. Char, burn +Entai(l)s (Entails - necessitates, drop the L, large).

[cashier]

5 Wikipedia

[Baldric]

13, OBSERVANCE

[cashier]

7 michelangelo

[cashier]

Is there a chance of any letters please?

[Captain2]

PS Apparently 12a should read CHOIRmaster, not 'post'

[margarettom]

18. Going concern

[cashier]

12 Seen as Gareth Malone

[margarettom]

24 waistband?

[margarettom]

5. Wikipedia - WI plus anagram paid ike

[Neveracrossword]

Between us, we must have got a decent chunk of the grid filled in now!

[margarettom]

17 Top Gear

[margarettom]

21. Is it vein
'Ve' in over and 'in' in tiny

[Captain2]

Just had a look and there are 24 clues in total in the crossword.

[redglenys]

Thank you all for your help. Still stuck on 5 small answers though,8a murdered for crime outside city (5)???I? slain?
15a Bill follows girl to name handbook (7) ?l?a?a?
17d best clobber TV programme (3,4) ?o?,g?a?
21d over tiny contents of inner tube (4) v?I? Ok

[cashier]

15 Almanac

[margarettom]

8. Yes slain
Sin around LA

[cashier]

17 Already answered