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(@Steve; around here if a young guy is driving a flash car and too fast I like to think of it as covering up a certain insecurity - they probably have penile dimentia....)

Excuse me. Pole or lap? Au naturel it's all been arranged (13)

I'll kick off the requests for parses, chrise:

Can someone please parse?:
rosalind@8
fj@9
ginge@19
jws@22

Pulled the strings and got Pinocchio moving (13)

Hi stevea, I'll let everybody else parse their own clues unless they haven't by voting time when I'll give my take(s).

Chinese old = Ch + o (both abbreviations in Chambers)
raver twisted = goer reversed; reog
(to is next to)
a style of music = rap
he'd = hed.
Ch + o + reog + rap + hed
Definition: compose (a Chambers definition of choreograph).

Planned task with nothing charted(13)
Planned as def

Can I add to steve's list of parse requests pigale @ 12/13, please?

No problem steve

Def. Planned
Broadcast is the hominym ind
Coronation St. . Corrie
Really... Oh
Hard work... Gtaft
Corrie oh graft

Hi ChrisE

Re 13/14

Fred Astaire was a choreographeR
Take away R and replace it by D
Somehow, I meant Fred Astaire 'choreographed'
Can't find appropriate missing word!

Involuntary movements no amateur plotted that dancing line (13)

Involuntary movements is chorea, as in Huntingdon's chorea
no amateur is remove the a,
plotted that dancing line is graphed (which is a verb) and also the def, but I see I have left out an "o"
I'll see what I can do in the time left