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Help parsing these two, please:-
2 Down - "Seriously rough sheds start to lean" (7)
Answer appears to be GRAVELY. I can see RELY with
the start missing, but what about the GRAV bit?

20 Down;- "Duck heard on lake intercepting two army swimmers" (7) Answer would appear to be NAUTILI, but,
again, I can't fully see it.

20d duck would be nought(zero) L for lake

gravelly would be rough ... lose one of the Ls

Gravelly without an "l"
Nautili sounds like Nought and then l for lake between II so assuming they use Roman numerals in the army- not too sure there!

20 D. Nautili are swimmers 'wrongly believed to use their arms as sails', so 'arm-y/army'?

Many thanks, Lindal and Bunty - appreciate your help!

Also, thanks to Malone - that's certainly another aspect!

Rocketman, it was the only reason I could come up with for 'army' being in the clue. When I saw Chambers said '...arms as sails', under 'nautilus', I grabbed at it!