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Not quite getting the word play on these

27a) Catch chap giving richer course material to the Dutch (5) S - R - T. Sprat?

19d) Goddess to destroy American poet's rhythm? (7) D - M - T - R. Demeter?

Also can't quite fully grasp 5 Down, I've seen it answered as EXTINCT

5d) Sometime around one, case in town court finished (7) E - T - N - T.

Off to work now, will pop back on tonight
Thanks for any help.

Les40

19d just means to ruin poetic meter (American spelling) rather than metre, I assume.

hi les40,hope your well?.27a i presume SPRAT.as in catch{small herring],and dutch[cockney rhyming slang for wife].jack sprat could eat no fat,his wife could eat no leen!!.hope its any help?

Re extinct, I assume EX (former or sometime) and one and N (neuter case) inside T and CT.

More accurately, N inside TCT and I inside that.

Correction: N for nominative (usually nom but sometimes just n). Even though one sees terms like neuter-case endings this is probably what is meant.

Cheers Oblib and aristo,

The explanation for the wordplay of EXTINCT has gone right over my head, I've never even heard of neuter-case, but just looked it up and, well, I never studied Latin nouns.
I think tha clue was mighty unfair.

Les40
Did you DECLINE to do so at school!!?