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22 ER, Queen Elizabeth II, old leading lady, As, in clue, ER, herself. Eraser, rubber.

Nice Malone

I've worked out
23a. Choking smoke beginning to burn Basil?
POTHERB

POTHER is a smoking cloud of smoke or dust.
Beginning to burn is B.

5a. Occult specialist withdrawing here in Rome
ORPHIC

10a. Drive back from Mumbai in journeys westward
SPIRIT

8d. Urban area cryptically suggested it?
CITY CENTRE

19a. Net caught by angler finally landing on field
CLEAR

Parses for the above please.

5 PRO - specialist backwards
HIC - "here" in Latin

10 TRIPS backwards around end of mumbaI

8 This looks like just a very weak cryptic definition. I would be interested to hear of there's more to it.

19 C- caught
LEA - field (meadow)
R - angleR finally

Thanks chrise

IT is in the centre of cITy, so cryptically suggested

Understood, thanks again

18a. Winter time basic basically represented in iambic pentameter?
DECASYLLABIC

11d. A single amount of DNA that I'm allocated?
MY GENERATION

16a. Choose casual look for carpet
DRESS DOWN

4d. Brass tacks and polish quickly put away in raised floor
NUTS AND BOLTS

Parses for the above please.

18 DEC(enber) winter time, then anagram basically? Poor clue

11 cryptic definition?

16 double definition, the second as in "tell off"

4 ?