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Any help parsing the following would be much appreciated:

Aug 18
11A "Emphasise hardship after the girl has gone" STRESS
Hardship & Emphasise = def
What does the girl have to do with it?

19A "Side of the mountains relating to the country" RURAL
Relating to the country = def
Side of the mountains?

14D "The girl goes up to Mr Harris looking flushed" FLORID
Flushed = def
Girl = FLO
Mr Harris?

Aug 24
8A “Old city weight” TROY
Old city = def
Weight?

5D “Young girl I found on a railway, one sent to do a specific job” MISSIONARY
Young girl= MISS
One sent to do a specific job = def
Railway?

DI STRESS
R URAL
Troy weights are used for jewels etc
MISS I ON A RY (common abbreviation for "railway" in crosswords

I'll think about FLORID

Oh, it's DI again and ROLF (Harris - I'm surprised this was passed) all upwards

Girl is Di Mr Harris is Rolf

Thank you ChrisE, that's fantastic! Agree re. Mr Harris.

I had no idea about Troy weights, thank you.

These Metro clues are old recycled ones, some as far back as 2014 and I feel they should have been changed for present use :(

Hello jazzgirl,
Do you mean Metro should have changed them or that I should be doing something differently when posting about them here? Just want to check I'm not doing something I shouldn't be.