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Slight tweak to 7 to make it grammatically more sound;

Middle Eastern church in tirade at money lender perhaps (8)

No rematch planned for John Lewis or M and S (8)

Am in trench warfare using weapons supplied by this guy (9)

Shopkeeper’s lost love twice now, with hot romance break-up (8)

(W HOT ROMANCE - O - O - W)*

Had to add a “with” (w), then remove the “w” using NOW = NO W messy but reads better. It’s just a game!

Starmer chanting contains the answer apparently. He’s always selling something!

Down:

Intermediary in sleep mode, summoning up and yelling in the demonstration (8)

Can HRT cause men on diets to be sexy? I suspect not, sadly, without leaving an obesity side-effect. Rubbish excuse, get lost explodes the trader. (8)

Well it is a hot afternoon, too humid for gardening and it seemed like an interesting challenge.

(CAN HRT CAUSE MEN ON DIETS TO BE SEXY I)* = A*
(NOT)* = B*
( AN OBESITY SIDE)* = C*
( EXCUSE AN)* = D*

using SUSPECT, SADLY, EFFECT, RUBBISH and EXPLODES as*
using WITHOUT, LEAVING, GET LOST as eliminators

[( A* - B* - C* - D*)]*

13 is obvs (8)

Tweak to explanation @17.
D* = EXCUSE* without the AN as previously shown.

Not that we expect anybody to check 🤔😜 - maybe Geting

I've yet to pass a maths test so I just assumed everything was flawless - though I did raise an eyebrow at the AN and couldn't work it out with a quick glance