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10a "Manage to recruit Medoc's chief wine expert" (9)

C?M?E?E?T

Assuming these letters are right it looks like it can only be COMPETENT but if so don't see the parsing

Any help much appreciated

competent
manage - cope
Medoc's chief (first ) letter - m
wine - Tent (a type of wine)

Thanks very much jazzgirl; hadn't come across that wine before

I have come across "Tent" only in cryptic crosswords (usually the Times) :)

23d]Pro-Remain foreign banker?[5]
C?[N]?O

CON GO

Banker to mean "river"

Thanks chrise

16a At the front, painted orange and blue like some hotels (7) p-s-d-s

P O SAD AS

Chrise - thank you - a new word to me.