Literary Mini #13

More of this nonsense?!  **Thank you solvers** for joining in once again, and hopefully I've managed to raise a smile here or there.  As always, click up above to follow along with my puzzles, and if you enjoyed it please let me know with a comment or a like 👍  (Or why not both?)

Usually my puzzles get about a ~50% success rate, so well done if you managed it.  The wash-up looks a little something like this:

ACROSS.  1A. ||Scoundrels = CURS + first letter of "except".||  4A. ||Homophone of "computer programmer" = CODER.|| 5A. ||Cryptic def.|| 6A. ||anag. AHOT.|| 7A. ||Hidden in "maSTERNeeds".|| 

DOWN. 1D. || "men" = CHAPS, minus P ("powerless"), insert O ("admit nothing").|| 2D. ||cycle letters of "peripheral" = OUTER.|| 3D. ||Remove first letter of "put things away" = NEATEN.||

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