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2.[The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey], [do men] play [cricket here?](10)

monde(anag,play)do men
green(cricket traditionally played on the village green)...
and a well known Mondegreen features in another clue.

The mondegreen is "Sue Lawley" - police, again?

I feel Sue Lawley(so lonely) is the superfluous example of a Mondegreen at 7. ChrisE, the police bit is purely coincidental.

A spoonerism(sort of)does appear Joan [shining wit] and is clued elsewhere.

Colemanballs?

P.S. for those who don't know the word, it comes from the ballad "They have killed the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen" (laid him on the green). My favourite is "I can see Deidre now Lorraine has gone"

Is the link VERBAL something?

Searching for the 'whining...'(shining wit), I keep thinking of Andrew Mitchell - am I way off track?

...or is the link SPEECH s'thing?

...or s'thing CHAIN?

VERBAL ABUSE!