7a Berated
8d Rank and File (as in military term relating to the horizontal "ranks" (rows) and vertical "files" (columns) of individual foot-soldiers)
9d Tutti Frutti (Little Richard Song)
22a Used (every second letter of Guessed ... u s e)
25a adrift
31a Seceding ( 100 in Roman Numerals = C, Seeding =planting. C into Seeding = Seceding as in withdraw from)
69a Inner (the ring on a target next to the bulls eye)
still stuck on 56d