7a Rice aroound rim, a useful start (5) ???A?
8a Narrates ruination of river port (9) ?RT?A?R???
15a Least comfortable boy soldier is French (7) ???IEST
1d Game poets include bad one (9) ???L?A???
6d Pasta for pound round Sunderland? (5) ???N?
17d Spy, an oddball, given directions to nervy meeting place (7)
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