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Pub, local, Pinion, Wing , witj L, lithium and Co, company, insi

Thanks as ever Malone, you're a star

You're welcome, Telboy. I did the puzzle yesterday, so didn't have to work hard - well, other than giving the parsing, I never bother with that for myself!

20 Henry’s thrown out gin-sizzled puss (6)
?I?S?R
Hisser, kisser, pisser or something else? Suggestions, please

Henry Kissinger - throw out, take out , the 'gin' in the middler! Kisser, puss, face.

Correction: ‘sozzled’ not ‘sizzled’ - not that it seems to help (curse of spell-check)

...I had to check, it was 'gin-sozzled', so the 'sozzled' is the anagram indicator, 'ing (in Kissinger)' is 'gin' scrambled, sozzled...

Thanks, Malone. I need instruction in lateral thinking

JohnT, glad I could help.

I thought 20a was the hardest clue for some time. I was convinced it must be hisser being a word for a cat. I expected Henry to be H (from the unit for inductance ) or Hal but couldn't get the rest.
Kissinger never came to mind but even then I'd never heard of a face being a puss. Did everyone know face=puss?