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Thanks Brendan, never knew the characters in Rebecca [\i] so cheers.

16d. Factory worker inside needs a form of head cover
MANTILLA

22a. Cutting top of log in the country
RURAL

21d. Calamitous smoke beginning to tower up
TRAGIC

9d. Singular articles in long letter...
SCREED

Parses for the above please.

16 ANT (worker) inside MILL (factory) + A

22 are you sure it’s “log” and not “leg” which would imply (c)rural ?

Yes pretty sure it was 'leg' so my mistake with autocorrect probably.

Cigar = Smoke, noun, and T from the start of Tragic . Up- reversed, upwards

9..S, singular, Creed, articles, religious stuff. Screed, long letter.

Nice one Malone and Jono, cheers

11a. 19 hundred unwilling to provide a show of repentance
SACKCLOTH

7d. Soldier arresting Wolfe and me is to make reparation
ATONEMENT

21a. Dutch painter welcomes English group with sidelong look
LEERINGLY

Parses for the above please.

11a. 19 must be a reference to another clue which yields SACK, hundred is C and unwilling is LOTH.
Chambers says sackcloth is “worn in mourning or penance”.