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15a - Bird, two of her assets? B???T?T (originally thought 'bluetit' but think that's actually two words)

18d - The deviant actions of father covering up old 8s P????I?N?

Any suggestions welcome!

15a bush tit ( bluetit can be either one or two words)

Ah yes, thank you for that. Was driving me mad!

17a is foxing me. Heavyweight v*dge evacuated quick

A?I?E

Can only think of alive but can't work out why that's the correct answer.

Ali (heavyweight boxer) + v(adg)e
- quick - alive, not dead

"the quick and the dead"

a little culture to this thread :-)

The use of the word quick is an archaic one. It specifically means living or alive (a meaning still retained in the "quick" of the fingernails,and in the idiom quickening, as the moment in pregnancy when fetal movements are first felt. Another common phrase, "cut to the quick", literally means cut through the dead, unfeeling layers of the skin to the living, sensitive tissues below

Ah, excellent thank you. I'd have been puzzling loved that until the end of time.

Help with these last 2 please:
20a Dangleberries I appreciate that proved painful when taken from behind. (7) T?G?U??
18d The deviant actions of father covering up old 8s (8) P???I?N?

(answer to 8 is obsessions)

Any help??

18d PASSIONS, obsessions

PA'S SINS, deviant actions of father, around O(ld)