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Brilliant thanks.
Anyone worked out 7d. CRESCENT yet?

7 D. Crescent, shape. Crest= plume of feathers, with Cen, central, around central, inside?

Ah yes malone, Thanks

1a. See odd perennials sprouting
RIPON AND LEEDS

(Yes it's an anagram, where's the definition?)

6d. Semi-continental kangaroo
EURO

Parses for the above please.

See as in a Bishop’s diocese, or a cathedral city.
Euro is another name for kangaroo.

Both worth remembering as they do seem to crop every now and again

1 See, diocese, is the definition, I think - like Ely, a favourite in crosswords.

6 Euro is a word for kangaroo, it's in Chambers. The word Euro is half/semi of European/continental, from the continent of Europe.

Ah yes I've seen the SEE before. Should've remembered.
Didn't know about EURO kangaroo.
Cheers

10a. One may be uplifted by ship on the equator
TRAMPOLINE

4d. Soldier on a horse or ship
TROOPER

Parses for the above please.

10a. A TRAMP is a type of ship and I think O LINE refers to the line of the equator being at zero degrees latitude? The definition is somewhat cryptic

4d. Two definitions, a mounted soldier and (another) ship

A TRAMP is a type of ship - a sort of jobbing cargo carrier.
0 LINE could be the equator, the zero line of latitude (though I would have preferred the Greenwich Meridian!)

4d don't know, unless a TROOPER is an alternative name for a troopship (prior to mechanisation, a trooper rode a horse)