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(S)Cared

5d headless chicken - (s)cared = cared

Thank you mamya and jazzgirl - I was thinking of of the bird, not the emotion!

Bravo (& Brava) to all who kept to one thread. Only one small offshoot.

Perhaps my poem, & the plea from tgipaul2, worked. (-;

@smiffy. Yes it's the feminine form.
Melba was an opera singer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Melba

@chrise. "concatenate" - To link together as in a chain (Chambers #1)
So HONK GONG --> HONG KONG

@syzygy Thanks for the mention! Hasn't it made life easier? :-D

Let's keep it going tomorrow x

Stuck on 10ac:
N_R_A_I_E
I can see several solutions but can't parse any
Help please?

Answer is narrative = relation, mother = native, carry skinned = arr.
Cheers Roger. No one yet has given a satisfactory parsing of 1 across: hockey, although it has been discussed here.

Thanks a lot Roger
1ac: Hockey - I suggest Hoc (event from ad hoc - Latin for 'to this' + key (crucial) but I may be wrong
Geoff

Will reluctantly accept this poor clue, having found from Chambers that 'this', Latin hoc, can mean event. Thanks for all the help.

21d Keeping offensive, explosive tax (6) C_A___

That's if 21 a is CLEANSE... which I'm unsure about

Really struggling this week!