Cryptic crossword No 1,982

Welcome to MyC, G_C. Its always good to see new setters, especially those open to advice. The first piece of advice I would give here is to enable annotations. That way, we can see what you're trying to do. I've parsed the majority of them, but there's a few I'm not too sure of...spoilery comments to follow

Welcome to the site GC. Plenty of decent ideas here and, before long, you will be producing solid puzzles. Most of my comments are spoilers so will appear in Reply. Thanks. PM

To Fudgeller and PostMark: Thank you both very much for your extremely helpful comments, I really appreciate it. As you no doubt realised I am new to both solving and obviously setting. I have a couple of questions if you have a moment or two...