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8 Across, Strayed late in ancient city, finding source of all clues initially (3,7)

12 Across, Pungent dish the utmost for customers, each needing large amount of water (6,3)

15 Across, Produce, in retirement, top class wooden animal (9)

16 Across, Poultry having time over start of Christmas to get fatter? (7)

Compiler - SCORPION

Many thanks

15 porcupine

Crop reversed u (top class) pine ( wooden)

16 thicken

Replace c (start of christmas ) in chicken with t (time)

Chicken - T instead of C (start of Christmas) - Thicken?
Crop - reversed + U top class + pine- porcupine?

Apologies, didn't see earlier posts.
Balti + CS + Ea?

As this is the 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper- is this a themed crossword? Thebes + mixed late gives The be atle s?

I'd be glad of help with:

Ex-boxer,hard to miss, protects bird in dispute (10)

?O?T?????E

Contravene

john Conte(h) with Raven (inside)

Thank you Shooty. I'll go with that and see if it helps with my last two. (I did have contravene as a possibility but I thought the boxer's name was Conti and the connection between contravene and dispute seemed too remote.)

Nope. Still can't finish.

Please help with

Driver's obstacle: character reversing (4)
A?A?

Attack zone with royal tank (6)
P?T?E?

I'm not entirely sure about the T there as the crossing solution is one of several I can't parse.