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18a. Ingest mushroom with consuming interest
INCEPT

22d. Beaten by Brown and Sherrin
TANNED

15d. House gets this speech from one of the parties
ASIDE

20d. Tax put on new car stock
CRAVAT

Parses for the above please

20 Cravat, stock, scarf-type thing! VAT is the tax, with an anagram ('new) of Car.

22 Tan, brown and Ned(Sherrin) a person - critic, playwroght, something, in the arts (a while ago).

Thanks Malone.
I've worked out these....
18a. Ingest mushroom with consuming interest
INCEPT

CEP inside INT(erest) gives INCEPT

22d. Beaten by Brown and Sherrin
TANNED
Brown=TAN + NED Sherrin (TV personality)... Not a very good clue IMO.

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15. In a stage play when an actor speaks such that the audience (house) can hear but other cast members are not meant to hear what is said, that’s called an aside. The second meaning is A SIDE

Thanks Jono...I'd never heard of the theatrical definition of ASIDE...the stuff you learn on here, thanks.

12a. Foreign money given to home counties faculty
SENSE

14d. Group of workers embraced by student briefly
TRADE UNION

5d. Nuts and crackers?
UNBALANCED

parses for the above please.

12 Sen, an Oriental currency, and SE, south east (of England)the home counties.

5 I think that's just one of the clues where the whole clue is the definition. It's not very good.

14d s TU dent

Thanks both