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5 down: Inside-out cover on fish basket (5) I have C?E?L Answer is creel but why? I see eel and cr . Help please.

23 down: opposition party missing opening of prayer (5) I have A?T?S. Answer is antis but why?

19 down: Every single participant making finish of a marathon (3,4) I have T?E ?A?L Answer seems to be The Mall but why? Any help in parsing greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance

23 Praying (M) Antis. (Missing opening/letter)

19 Them All, every single one, then The Mall., finish of the marathon.

5 CoveR EEL
23 (m)ANTIS
19 THEM ALL
The London Marathon finishes on the Mall.

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Inside-out cover on fish basket (5)

CREEL

Yes, it's a fish basket, but the definition here is just 'basket'. A nice red herring, if I may maintain the fishy theme.

6 Down - "Header against the post?" Can only see HASHTAG, but how does that equate to the clue?

Looks like a cryptic defn in the sense that a social media ‘post’ might be ‘headed’ with e.g. #cryptic