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10a: Place with fighting men in space base? (5)

I have E?B?D

It looks like EMBED (= place), but how does the rest of it work?

20a: Selfish move for one Conservative in case (10)

I have ?G?C?N?R?C

EGOCENTRIC (= selfish)? If so, why?

I think the first one is "Place with fighting men", as reporters sometimes are. EM is the (printers') space, though I don't see why BED is "base".

Yes embed is defined as planting a journalist with a military unit in Chambers

bed and base can be synonymous as in the bottom of something

Move is GO and that replaces onE C in ECCENTRIC (a “case”) to give EGOCENTRIC

Thanks. A bit convoluted, I think!

I thought the clue for Egocentric was good, very clever!