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1dn, 'Cockney workers' places covering eastern islands?', (8), A???L?E?;

13ac, 'Crossing area in City, grab something to eat', (7), ??A?A?E;

20ac, 'Extension built by woman beside river', (6), ?R?E?E.

20a the R is wrong

Tell me more.

1d antilles? Not got all the parsing

ant(h)ills around Eastern

ANN EXE

Antilles looks right. Thanks.

13ac must be TEACAKE, but why?

take ec and a?

That must be it for 13ac, TEACAKE, and STANDING ROOM for 5dn. Plus ANNEXE for 20 ac Thank you so much for your help.

'River' seems, these days, to be DEE, EXE, OUSE, PO or (less common) TEST.