If I have worked out the preamble correctly ...... Lapdog's first to steal ham CH?U?B Affected sort against twirling in fur CINN?C? plus 14a Setter apparently to be on the safe side producing arab... ...
1d. Unexpected payments needed in getting concealed lettuce to the outskirts of Thurles. (6 5) H???e? ?o??? 21a. Potassium in small drinks. One gives them a miss (5) 19d. In which an informant... ...
Last 3 hopefully 15a Coarse fellow, Henry or Bill in poetry (4) HO?H 23a Catch that is supplied with locks for Edmund (6) ?EA?IE (presumably a Spenser word) 7d Modern trendy, joker in Rhine heading... ...