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You showoff, AB. Ixion too.

That just leaves 1. 3. and 6. and the link.

Two of them actually do start with "X"!

3 isn't Xerxes, is it?

Not xerxes Aristo, it does begin with x though and is in Chambers, though my defn. is closer to the one in Collins

XOANON!

Correct Aristo...

3.[Fallen idol] ...“it's neat to make a comeback [immediately]”(6)

ox=neat
anon=immediately

xo-anon

Although Chambers doesn't mention god in it's defn most other sources do.

Is "answers" the link?

It is AB...care to explain why?

I'd love to explain why...if only I could.

Saw " a partnership with" and thought "a NS w" looked at the last letters of the answers and "the last ones are tricky" and made a shot in the dark.

Close enough AB...

"a partnership with a pulse" = a/NS/w/ers, "the last one's are tricky" being the usual anagram indicator for the last letters of the numbered clues.

There's another definition part in the clue which 1. wouldn't approve of.