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Head boy demanding to silence boat t get fish (7,5)

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Order dry ale and soft drink (6,6)
?????R ??????

1A Basking Shark

Thanks nemo
How did you do it please ?

B head (of) boy
asking = demanding
Sh - to silence
ark - boat (as in Noah's Ark)

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Order dry ale and soft drink (6,6)
?????R ??????

A bit of a stretch, but could it be orange squash?

Orange from "Order" - The Loyal Orange Institution/ Orange Order

Squash - our American cousins make squash beer (sounds a bit weird to me) and I don't know if it is dry in any sense.

The whole being a soft drink.

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another suggestion

tt- dry
ale - beer
order - Orange

bitter orange ?

Bitter orange is correct , so clever how you get there, I'm quite new at cryptic and it's more luck for me at the moment .

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Liberal use of written communication (7)
B??????

My solver's coming up with "porter prince" I don't know why but it's giving it 5 stars! Porter is ale but that's about it.:-)

BRAILLE (anagram "liberal")

wordplays.com gives an answer as
porter prince
but that site often has errors