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12d Misrepresentation : perversion

Pair holding English: PR (pair) holding E (English) : PER
translation: Version

SCRAPE? SCR Senior common (or combination) room + A + PE (gym)

Think it should be "scrape".

My mistake all ...yes it should be SCRAPE. .... Predictive texting again!
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9a. Battle against royal household
AGINCOURT

12a. Girl providing cover for many soldiers
MYRA

22a. Indicate menace afterwards about drug hoarded by despicable chap
THREATEN

23a. Order an assortment over the phone
ARRANGE

1a. Society girl, a current collector
SKATE

I think get the parse here S+KATE, but what definition of skate is this?

Parses for the above please.

9. AGIN (a dialect word for against) + COURT
12. M(an)Y + RE (soldiers)
22. E in RAT all inside THEN (afterwords)
23. Homophone “a range”
1. Don’t know

I suppose skate (the fish) may collect in currents?

is skate the fish? even so the definition seems very loose

Skates have electric organs in their tails

The electric organ of skates is a paired structure within the tail consisting of two longitudinal columns of electrocytes contained within the lateral musculature on each side of the vertebral column.