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i am stepping up to the times from other cryptics and need some help: i am beginning the 'crossword collection'.
i need some explanations re solutions:

1] shortly about to run off without paying for the orange [5]
2] appeal to deflect god [6]
3] urgent bid to reconstruct city hence protest letters, reputedly [9,5]
4] justice of the peace [7]
5] acceptable in european city, being head over heels in it? [5]

gotv [most] of answers but....

1] answer is NAVEL ??

Hi Paulpot.

3] is Tunbridge Wells, a town in England.
'Tunbridge' is an anagram of 'urgent bid' and 'Wells' is a city in England.
Protest letters to the UK newspaper(s) might be signed "Yours, disgusted, of Tunbridge Wells".

JimC

Could 5 be Paris ?
After all Par is acceptable!
Colin

2] = SATURN ??

SA = sex appeal
TURN = deflect
SATURN = roman god

4] = silence

re Navel
Levant,means to run off wthout paying.
Shortly levant = levan.
but i can't see how the clue would work from there(it's an anagram or written backwards,but i don't see any indication)

...Actually the word About means backwards.

what has navel got to do with orange?
5] = AMOUR???