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8a More obscene 20 getting caught
20a Picked up 8 for food shop.

Answers turn out be grosser and grocer.

My question is how do you solve these when each cross references the other ?

I think in this instance, you have to recognise ‘picked up’ and ‘caught’ as homophone indicators, and conclude that the two words are homophones of each other. Not easy

Incidentally, Monk has posted a correction to 3d