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Bad, bad cut to network held to ransom (8)

About time President took Mussolini captive (8)

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Held to ransom by bad, bad cut to network (8)

Sailor cut up in river thrall (8)

Specimen tested by grey market? (8)

"Bad EU" etc, sort of language used by Farage to describe UK's relationship with Europe? (8)

Landlord who takes beer to an empty bar ? (8)

Having unceremoniously been captured, so missing person is thus? (8)

Help with a few, please? I don't quite see where the U comes from in ginge @4, and am not sure about the significance of "public" @9. Also, the definition in bigbad @17, and explanation to see if I'm on the right track. Perhaps I got too much sleep last night...

Hi aristo the def. in my clue is "landlord... ?" qualified by the QM as a defn by example as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absentee_landlord

The wordplay is "beer" with absent "ee" = br (empty bar)