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20a Therapist from outskirts of Portsmouth regularly seen by a sailor (6).
I think it must be 'physio' but I can only see the 'ph' from outskirts of Portsmouth.

24d Brief scrap with small beast (5)
S?R?W
Several words fit but I can't parse any of them.

I assumed alternate letters of “by a sailor” gave y s i o.

I thought shre(d) + w (with), to give shrew

Thank you Quisling, for 20a I'd tried using the alternate letters of 'seen by a sailor' and couldn't see beyond that.

Yes, that was my first thought. It didn’t jump out at me either