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Got it! Many thanks. Just read the clue wrongly!

Thank you so much for putting me out of my misery, I think I will need the extra hour in bed tomorrow.

Could anyone please help with 14d "Quiet Muscovite ready to survey surface of steppe? It may be this barren."(9)

I've got S-R-B-E-S and can only assume it's SHRUBLESS but can't parse the BLESS bit.

was it Sh... Rubles and an S? - i've forgotten the clue.

Yes Trevor

14 Quiet Muscovite ready to survey surface of steppe? It may be this barren (9)

readies are money.

sorry scribbler, i now see that you had already given the clue.

btw, Mamya, i had the same blind spot as you, it took ma ages to read between the lines.

yes that was devious and threw me totally