9a what a disappointment after i claim tax reassessment(10)a???c?i???
4d what might be on for an interview,mam, is just the luck of the draw!(1,3)?,??e
7d so we hear an innocuous imprecation(4)???n
27d pip?, what the dickens is this, so we hear?(4)s?e?
20a departed firm, desperately difficult!(4,4)?e?d,hard