Mephisto Nasty Nine

[Gung-Ho-Joe]

4a. European region in which to get intradermal sedative (8) ----D-C-.
19a. Leaders are excessively preoccupied, cycling round after setback BO-S-S.
30a. Wind rages furiously across estuary (8) -R--ST-S.
5d. A god rising in the earth, what? (6) -E-TAL.
8d. Bill appearing in Syrian cloth made from plant fibre (5) ---CA.
10d. Financial allowances for divorcees? (4) ---S.
23d. Fish? One Indian snake eats any number (6) I-A---.
24d. Disease of sheep getting dingy over time (4) D-NT.
14a. Group in small valley (5) -L-D-.

As usual.....stuck on nine. I see all sorts of stuff but can't parse! The heat you know.......

[fiction-factory]

Dent as in Dent's deisease?

[Captain2]

14a Slade - double definition ie Pop group and synonym for valley

[fiction-factory]

Ignore dents- can't see a sheep link

[Mamyalynne]

8 Abaca

[Mamyalynne]

4 Thridace

[gangesboy]

24 dunt

[donny48]

14 slade

[Mamyalynne]

Sorry, you wanted parses

Abaca (Plant fibre)- AC (Bill) in Aba Cloth


Thridace (sedative) - ID in Thrace

[donny48]

23 inanga

[gangesboy]

23 Inanga

[Gung-Ho-Joe]

Many thanks to all.....two to get.....will persevere!!

[Mamyalynne]

10 Exes - double def.

[Mamyalynne]

5 Helios

Eh (what?) back + Soil, back

[donny48]

inanga = fish
(one) i + n(number) inside naga (the Sanskrit and Pali word for a deity or class of entity or being taking the form of a very great snake,

[Gung-Ho-Joe]

Last one .....10d. Financial allowances for divorcees? (4) E-ES.
"Exes" ??

[dannyk13]

Answered at 14.16 Joe.^^^

[fiction-factory]

yes, exes is short/slang for expenses and exes =plurals of ex

[donny48]

Exes as ex-wife and exes as expenses

[Mamyalynne]

Sorry if I wasn't clear.

[Gung-Ho-Joe]

Crystal clear Mamma.......thank you and indeed everyone......you all amaze me!!