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Hi aristo a hand is the term for what we normally call a bunch of bananas and a reference to bananas is under hand in Chambers. Below is from googling "hand of bananas"

A single banana is called a finger. A grouping of attached "fingers" make up a "hand" of bananas. Multiple hands that grow in a cluster are called a bunch or stalk—a bunch of bananas may contain 3 to 20 hands!

Following = f in (cutting) hand + crated.

Skilfully made a flush with clubs on the river, a deft shuffle ensues (11)

mathprof: A ghost anagram!

ginge: Got it. Thanks. I don't think I've ever heard it called a hand.

I thought we were doing ghost anagrams now. There was a big discussion about it a couple of weeks ago. I only recently learned the term, but its kinda cool.

A hand of bananas isn't too common, but I had run across it once or twice.

Hi sristo just noticed your query...

Maybe skrimshaw could give pointer to where it was made ? (11)

There is a bit going on here

Maybe skrimshaw ....... ? is the def. by example - a handcrafted article

"could give" is used as a link between def. and wordplay

pointer = HAND (of a clock etc.)

"to where" is used to show of juxtapositioning elements of wordplay

it was made = CRAFTED , I managed to convince myself of the validity since it passes the substitution test :- "Look at that chair, it was made by Sam Maloof" = "Look at that chair crafted by Sam Maloof".

Hope that makes sense !

Made simply to drench a daft delinquent (11)

Simply made to measure boat with press chief after it (11)

'hand' is a measure of 4"

Once again I enjoyed reading all of these. A number of definitions, however, weren’t adjectival (or past-tense). Among the very many nice touches were jono’s “historic limits”, peterm’s “both taps”, paul’s use of “cunning”, mathprof’s “floated along catching current” (although I couldn’t see where the first D would come from), faiton’s “French Dadaist”, bigbad’s use of “pointer”, ginge’s “following cutting”, jimmygtal’s Cher audio, mattrom’s nifty offering @31, buddy’s (probably prophetic) DNC shakeup, and so on… I’m going with that shifty riverboat gambler les40 @42:

Skilfully made a flush with clubs on the river, a deft shuffle ensues (11)

I wish the “the” could be dropped but admit that the surface might be awkward. I loved “a deft shuffle”.

A bit of funky woodwork for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm1vTa1YIGg

Thanks so much, everyone! And welcome home, les40!

Thanks aristo. As I implied earlier, over here we would generally say "handicraft", so "handicrafted"? (I was so close with "deft arachnid"!)

Congrats les - nice to see you back.