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Grocery shop has constant surplus supplies (5)

Grocery shop = Spar
constant = e (as in base of natural logarithm)
surplus = spare

Give quarter to save one's bacon (5)

Around 4 hours to go to dredge some more combinations out of the old grey matter. Some nice clues already in my shortlist. Can peeps supply a few parses please, namely Paul's 11, Mattrom's 25 and Hannah's 26 ? To be honest, I'm not very good at solving clues, and the more convoluted ones usually defeat me. Cheers

Hi malc,
I read #11 as referring to a spare tyre - we comonly refer to the spare tyre as "the spare".

#26 - "Spare the rod and spoil the child".

Thanks Pedagogue

Slender box with key (5)

All skin and bones, John's parents are prisoners (5)

Reaps crop for free (5)

Righto. Going to call this in.
We had 12 compilers this time with a myriad of ways to approach SPARE. Lots of good ones, but the ones that made my shortlist were :
tyke51 @30
pedagogue @18 and
paul @5
But our winner this week is pedagogue's @20 :
" Odds are slim "
Simple, yes, but I do like a nice succinct surface, and this one fitted the bill nicely.
Congrats pedagogue and the runners-up !

The prize this week is a tickle on the ivories :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h86nJUHrJ1E