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Odds are three to one that the prison sentence will be three months (6)

Double definition

Might bomb when hitting the floor (6)

Find fault with Latin and what goes on in cover-up (6)

Thanks kt17 - that's correct. stevea, you are fortunate to have avoided the incessant TV adverts for Churchill Car Insurance! They are fronted by an animatronic bulldog called "Churchill".

Wig too large for head, perhaps? (6)

[Nothing to do with the competition - sorry for the digression - but I heard a great Churchill-related story on an old QI repeat this week. Clement Freud, when an MP, was on a "fact-finding" mission to China. Also in the party was Winston Churchill MP, grandson of the great man. One evening Churchill invited Freud to his room for a nightcap; Freud noticed that the room was far larger and more opulent than his. The next morning he said at reception
"I'm not complaining, but why has Mr. Churchill got a much better room than I have?"
"He has famous grandfather".

As Freud said later "that's the first time I've ever been out-grandfathered!"]

Could I have some parses, please?
tyke51 @6
hannah @7
(am I missing something with the references to snakes?)
spike2 @18

Scold / runner / to cover / python(6)

Quadruple definition . .

Carpet Pythons or Carpet Snakes (usually called 'carpets' and named for their patterned appearances) are very common reptiles in tropical and sub-tropical Australia; and probably elsewhere)

And to add another . .

Snake put down by layer(6)

Double def.

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