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18a. Shot the wife to share the cost
GO DUTCH

2d. Edged outside to support amusing person warned by police
CAUTIONED

13a. Gave out late shifts by date
DEALT

Parses for the above please.

18a. GO (shot, as in attempt) + DUTCH (cockney rhyming slang for wife, from Duchess of Fife I think?)

2d. ED from the outside letters of edged + CAUTION
Chambers has caution - “An alarming, amusing or astonishing person or thing”

13a (late)* + d

Thanks for these Jono....they were all a bit meh, not very satisfying.

Glad I could help.

21a. Mended material put on the clothes line?
REPAIRED

11a. Very good hole in the ground for bird
PIPIT

Parses for the above please.

21 Rep is a type of cloth (material) + aired (put on the clothes line)

11 Pi (very good) + pit (hole in ground)

21, rep is a cloth, with aired as clothes do on clothes line.
11, pi means very good, and a pit is a hole in the ground.

Thanks, Jono and rusty.