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4a. Drink a lot to overcome record
TOPE

18a. A heartless romance leads to trouble for en enthusiastic follower
AFICIONADO

1a. The end of a skier?
UPSHOT

7d. Financial regulators operating in accordance with law?
SUPPLY AND DEMAND

Parses for the above please.

4a - TO + EP (Extended Play (record) reversed/overcome

18a - A + FIC(t)ION (heartless romance (novel) + ADO (trouble)

1a - UP (the end) + skier is a SHOT kicked high in the air

7d - I think this might be a sort of &lit clue or cryptic definition where "supply and demand" is the "law" that "regulates" much of finance.

(At least that's what I remember from my A- level Economics!)

Thanks Brendan.

1a. Outline beginnings of chapters in rough with writer
CIRCUMSCRIBE

4d. Second president's murderer
SIKES

6d. America's mistake identifying British caterpillar
BLOOPER

Parses for the above please.

6 Blooper, America's mistake/word for mistake. B, British and Looper, a ctaerpillar.

4 S, second and Ike's, president 's (Eisenhower, nickname). Sikes, murderer (in Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist)

Circumscribe - outline

beginning (first letters of )Chapter/In/Rough
cum - with (explained in Chambers link)
writer - scribe

Thanks all.

9a. Some hide from Violet Elizabeth Bott's musical performance
THONG

2d. Perch seen in strong current off Scotland
ROOST

1d. Religious housing for the extremely wretched
PITEOUS

13a. Soup made with bad weather around
SKILLY

Parses for the above please.

9. Thong, hide, strip of leather. Violet Elizabeth Bott (in 'Just William') had a lisp, so Song, musical performance,wouldsound like Thing.

1. Pious, religious with TE, outside letters of The,inside. Piteous, wretched.