16 D Fruit and nuts (7) b???n??
19 D Youth leader in a squalid property finds sanctuary (6) ???l??
23 D Put away, but decays round start of Easter (5) ??o??...
Almost there-- but.... Gravy: cook put a sock in it (4) -O-H. Dosh (=money=gravy)? Gosh (go shhh)? Parsing of Effin' Jeffrey Archer novel (4,2,3,5) Answer is more William Golding but why? Muchas...
20d spearing apples from a basin of apples(7)??p?ing i have seen answer as bobbing which does not fit in, and p is correct as 23a slang for a policeman---copper???...
17 Across - Corresponding sticker (5) ???m?
14 Down - Toast in the post (7) ???t?o?
12 Across - Cheap music (4) S???
2 Down - It makes Victor what he is (7) ?i?n???...
8 Across - The teacher, a graduate, gets a rest for a change (6) ???t?r 9 Down - Don't worry, it's always physical (5,4) ?e??? e?n? 15 Down - Man, if getting up to a hundred, becomes harmful (7)...
Cryptic clue: 8A Take out brown marks, small and ineffectual. (8) *E*K*E*S 'Normal' clue: 8A Weak and irresponsible. (8) Feckless seems to be the correct answer (FRECKLES minus the 'R' + S(mall))...
16d LTheatrical exhibitions for the short-sighted? (10). 1a They work with horses with a kind of beastly sob (6,4). 8d Drink created in some yard in Trim (3,7). Need help to get going, thanks....
9 American coming to the forecast of most unusual book [6] A?R?S? 10 acc A sports official wearing appropriate item - not this [8] ?A?E???? 7dn One line of mathematicians with popular appeal [6]...