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1 Across, Mitt and corporation with billion pounds in face reddening free-for-all (5-3-6)

10 Across, Assistance in exterminating Post Office can be found in shop (3,6)

13 Across, A file covering British group's revolting phase (4,6)

15 Across, Indebted to house husband,spent cold months avoiding wife (2,3,3)

Compiler - NESTOR

Many thanks

1a rough and tumble

roug hand tum bl e

1a: rough and tumble (def)
roug hand tum b l e
hand- mitt
tum - corporation
b - billion
l- pounds
rouge- face reddening

10a : rat poison = assist in exterminating
PO - post office
is - can be
in rat on (tell; shop)

15a: in the red - indebted (def)
(w) intered - spent cold months minus w (from wife)
h -husband

13a Seen answered as Arab Spring
I can't parse it though.

ARAB SPRING
A RASP (file) around B(ritish) + RING (group)

13a: Now that Rossim has done the hard work in getting the answer "Arab spring" - which I don't even understand?
How about this for parsing?
a rasp- a file
b - British
ring - group
?

Thanks Mattrom.
I was working on ring file and it completely threw me out.

Google it for an explanation Elle.
It was new to me too.