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BigAl, it is right. Toped is an old-fashioned word, hardly used, that means 'got drunk'. 'To back' = reverse it, so Depot, arsenal, warehouse etc.

Got drunk is TOPED, backwards. Long before Arsenal was a football club, an arsenal was a depot for arms etc.

Just spotted TOPED!
How could I have missed it!
Sorry

BigAl,thanks - glad you spotted how the clue worked.

Hi, I’m struggling with 21a/24d
Press revelations: “The Eye’s reprehensible way!” I have
21 ?T???T/OF
24 S???E
STREET OF SHAME?…. I’m just guessing at that though

It's a long time since I read PE, but I remember there was a regular column on newspaper affairs called "Street of Shame".

LittleMiss, yes, that's right - it's just another reference to itself, in Private Eye there's a column or regular feature called that.

Thank you both. I need to have a little more faith in myself!

I’m also struggling with 14D
“Try getting males transported at first”- which comes from Supreme Court? (9)
I thought it was Judgement but I’m really can’t solve 13a now it has ???J?N so judgement must be wrong

JUDGE MEN T

13 is an anagram