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1dn. Right in New York City, back-draught causes skin rash.
?r?I?a?I?. There can only be one answer, but I don't
understand the clue.

City in New York state around an abbreviation for right - then a draught coming back.

As there is now a thread, I have a question too.

10a Work up to (4)
?I?L

I have a sort of work a farmer might do, but I wouldn't spell the "up to" homophone the same way. Am I on the wrong track?

According to the Cambridge dictionary both meanings are have the same spelling

Thanks zozozo
Isn't the "up to" a contraction of "until", and thus has only a single L?

'til

Apparently not:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/till

Yes, Chambers agrees. I've been spelling it wrong all my life! (Not that I've written it much.)

Chrise, Chambers gives the definition, with an entry of its own, as 'preposition up to the of, to, towards (Scottish), conjugation up to the time when'. I

Chambers has a separate entry for "till" (up to the time of)

Not only is my typing too slow, I've also missed out a word - the definition is 'up to the time of...'.