Mephisto

[yellow11]

last few-help please
1a veteran brought up to do without english vegetable 4 ?P??
9a try other school for a dinosaur 8 ?h??o?o? RHINODON??
1d peers as found in say the s herald and this newspaper 6 ???M?S times somewhere?
3d sound turned up about right for member of a gang 5 ??OO? hood somewhere?
thanks
also id general consensus 4d=horned or hornie
hard before noon-that's mephisto for some H?RN?? i'd go for ie=that's but?

[scorpiojo]

9 theropod
1d stimes
Hornie + stade

[slaney]

3d D(r)oog - from A Clockwork Orange

[scorpiojo]

Spud for 1a?

[yellow11]

thanks-thought both the latter but couldn't parse spud

[scorpiojo]

Nor me

[slaney]

1a Spud - SPU(e)D - old word for brought up

[yellow11]

thanks all

[scorpiojo]

Spue is an old word for spew (bring up) so spued minus E?