Possible Clues:

• By the sound of it, that's what keeps you 17 acrosses together
• As one, not days, by the sound of it, after you
• Idiot English taken in by American allies
• This makes 23 down into one
• Joins or brings together
• Makes 2 as 1 to tie in the Sun
• Combines
• Placed up in you, in short, as one
• Joins you, sirs, for the hearing
• Tie it in the sun makes it as one