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Can anyone please help me with my last 2?
5a Plain way to put records back to back (6)
***p*e
6d Potentially great having arsenic, it's enough to make one's eyes water (4,3)
**a* gas
Can you also explain reasons for the answers. Thanks.

6d Potentially great having arsenic, it's enough to make one's eyes water (4,3)
**a* gas

Tear gas
As = Arsenic with an anagram of Great

TEAR GAS

5a steppe - grassy plain
st - way
ep+pe(ep backwards)

5a. steppe. st(street=way) + EP +PE (extended play, ditto backwards).

Plain = Steppe (geographical feature - russian steppes are plains)
way = St(reet)
to put records back to back - EP's were old vinyl records(maybe still on CD's)EP stood for Extended Play.
so, records back to back = eppe

Thank you all for your help. Don't know why I couldn't think of tear gas! Had got the word simple stuck in my head for 5 across which didn't help.

i thought of the word simle as well.

PLAIN BEING SIMPLE EP AND LP BOTH RECORDS BACK TO BACK AT THE END OF SIMPLE. HOPE THAT HELPS