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Am at a standstill and would appreciate some help if possible.

9a. Mate with no new problems rebutted contrasting rhetoric. (8) c??????s

13a. Half square threaded back through women's underwear and loose outerwear (6) ?u?q?s

23a. Due to drink wine over time in boozer's vat full of preservative? (9,3) ???d?????,t??

12d. Pound of muscle protein, with pound brought down undre Callaghan, familiarly. (5,7) Jimmy, ??????n

15d. Muscat raised as an introduction: How nice! (8) h???????

Any help would be most gratefully received. Thank you.

13a burqas
bra - womens underwear with half of square back "threaded through" it

9 Chiasmus - china minus n + sums reversed

Thank you. Can see it now!

Due - owing , wine red (over) , time- t Boozer- pub- P ow der ing t ub- powdering tub - vat full of preservative?

Thank you very much for your help.

Muscle protein - myoglobin, with pound-l brought down, my goblin + Jim - Jimmy O'Goblin Cockney rhyming slang for a sovereign - pound?

Thank you all for your help. Can hopefully carry on now.