1 Across, Fellow to give others the chop (8)
10 Across, Nasty old woman drinking French wine in the past could be trying (6,1,2)
14 Across, See how torturers cruelly dominated (4,3,8)
16 Across, Oaf a lass soundly walloped - we wholeheartedly approve too (3,2,3,3,2,2)
Compiler - QUIXOTE
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