independent on Sunday 910/ST2389

[gordonia]

Need help with these 2 clues.IOS 910.

5 across- Version of Bible in French,along with a set of sacred texts.(6) ???S??

6 down- Maybe prune (or chop or uproot!) woman's plant(7) ??R???A

ST Cryptic-Need help with these 2 clues as well.Just can't see them at all.

7 down - Enlarged and mounted (6,2) S?A?E? UP

17 down- Shocked by great change in the two retired(8)
?U?R??ED

[Aquagility]

7d Scaled up

[JerryB]

ST 17d is OUTRAGED - "the two retired" is DUO backwards, and the rest is an anagram (change) of GREAT

[gordonia]

Many thanks Aquagility and JerryB,I don't usually have any trouble with this,but I just couldn't see them at all. Cheers!

[Aquagility]

6d Pareira???

[kettledrum]

5a Have you left "is" out of the clue ? I feel it should be AVESTA. A(uthorised) V(ersion) + est ( is French ) + a

[kettledrum]

6d Verbena...... prune, chop, uproot are all verbs....+ Ena

[gordonia]

Many thanks kettledrum,yes I had missed out "is "from the clue.If you're still about,could I ask you 8 down as well please? A fine thing is hidden- a discriminatory policy(6)
A?E???

[kettledrum]

agenda ....a hidden agenda is a discriminatory policy

[kettledrum]

sorry....I'm rethinking that....amende?

[kettledrum]

.....or amerce ?

I'm sure someone else will sort it out for us both.

[slaney]

A ge(is)m

[kettledrum]

Thank you Slaney !

I went dashing in with agenda, and then couldn't account for "fine thing" & then got obsessed by "fine" and couldn't account for the rest of the clue !!

[gordonia]

I think it may well be amende,as the "d" fits in with 13 across,which reads,One sees nothing American around the room(7) which gives us O?E?L?D.If however it was amerce then it would read O?E?L?C.

[gordonia]

Thanks a lot Slaney,just read the clue properly and it finally dawned on me.Cheers!

[kettledrum]

13a ocellus

[gordonia]

Many thanks kettledrum,it's a word I don't know,but which I'll remember. You are definitely a star!