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22ac Hoodlum's a chicken when facing term in Newgate. (6)
_ A _ O _ E

16dn Term for this? Clamber possibly! (8)

_ C _ A _ B _ E

Looks like scramble, especially as it includes aa anagram of 'clamber' but if so, where does the initial 's' come from?

22a capone

Capone

Scramble

Term in both clues = terminus (last letter of next word)

A case of if you get one you'll get the other. Thank you Shooty.

What's the parsing for 15 ac.- being a landlord primarily, my inebriated clients go home now?
It's clearly closing time, but what has that to do with landlords, etc?

closing time= go home now (def)
anagram of "clients go" and "m" and "i" (primarily)

OK, Thanks Elle. I missed the anagram, but "being a landlord" still seems superfluous.

I still can't figure it out properly, although I'd already seen it was an anagram of clients go with i m left over. But isn't inebriated the anagram indicator? If so, it can't be initialism fodder, surely.

"primarily" is the indication for the initial letters, as I said in post 6.

I did see your post - you haven't understood mine. I don't think inebriated can do double duty as initialism fodder and anagram indicator.