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1 Across, Killing growth is brilliant if the end moves one on (7)

5 Across, Beds- perfectly abbreviated county (7)

9 Across, Novel visualised by 21 (3,5,2,5)
{21 = Stonewash ensures clothes bleached (5) }

11 Across, So long clue for 'lackey' uses spoonerism (6-3)

Compiler - ANAX

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21 bleached Is the definition.
Clothes = it's hiding the word.

11a) toodle-pip (poodle -lackey and clue tip)

Ashen?

Ashen?21A

"The woman in white" then?

21: ashen = bleached
(hidden in clue)

So possibly
9a : The Woman in White = novel (by Wilkie Collins)

5 patches - beds ( in gardens)
pat - perfectly
Ches(hire)

1a triffid - a killing growth
t (e)riffi(c) d
Although there is no indication of slang in the clue !

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=triffic

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