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A few I am having trouble parsing - can anyone explain these please? I can see the definitions but not the wordplay.

13a Deny top claims represented a concern for investors(6,7). I have LISTED COMPANY.

21d Lizard in Ceylon, perhaps, existing on energy in fruit(9). I have CHAMELEON.

53a Bleak wind from the south and east(7). I have AUSTERE.

All help gratefully received, thanks.

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Ceylon perhaps =cha (tea)
fruit = melon + e(nergy)

13 looks like an anagram of "deny top claims"
21 CHA is tea, which might be Ceylon, then E in MELON
53 AUSTER is poetically the south wind, the E for east

Thanks, ChrisE. Really kicking myself over 13! I missed "represented" as an anagram indicator. Grrr.

Hadn't come across "Auster" before, except as an Airfix kit when I was a kid (there was an Auster aircraft).

Thanks rossim.