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23a. He's impressed by this?
CONSCRIPTION

28a. After weekend in gutter journalist's spiked
SKEWERED

19a. Pass giving foul
DEFILE

11d. Pair up to hearten a merry old soul
COUPLE

5a. Find track to badger's lair
RUN TO EARTH

7a. Backing star with Kiss - a guitarist
AXEMAN

Parses for the above please.

11 Old King COLE ( ...a merry old soul...)with Up in middle.

Axeman, guitarist ( pops up quite often). Name X kiss + A, in clue, reversed.

28. K (weeKend) in SEWER + ED

Thanks for the replies.
Anyone worked out DEFILE and
RUN TO EARTH yet?

Thbanks, Whetstone. 19 A, Defile, is just a double definition - a pass (geography term, I think) and foul, verb, spoil etc.#

A defile is a gorge, so a pass.
Run to earth means find. Run is track and an earth is a badger’s lair.

Cheers again all.
The things you learn eh.

22a. Vegetable sprouting first
BROCCOLI

26a. Go north of the border and come down underground
GANGLAND

10a. Stayed over on South American peninsula, initially
SUSPENDED

6d. Gathering following complaint
BEEF

2a. SA's leader is common
GENERAL

Parses for the above please.

22 there is a form of broccoli called "sprouting broccoli", but it seems a weak clue
26 GANG Scots dialect for "go", LAND - come down
10 "stayed" as in "put on hold" or SUSPENDED. S South US American ENDED - over, around Peninsula initially
6 BEE as in "spelling" etc. F -following, BEEF complaint as a moan
2 ?