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4d. We scoffed at boy being apprehended and maybe subjected to blows
WEATHER-BEATEN

parse?

4d.....cancel that question.... penny's dropped.

20a. Basketball team, for example, in Montreal who score - about time!

QUINTET

Parse?

montreal is french-speaking, so qui = who, then net = score, around t for time
presumably there are 5 players in a basketball team

15d. Very minor constituent leading royal couple around Egypt once
TOP QUARK

parse?
I think this setter's been on the ale. LOL.

17d. One possible reason for second biblical flood happening?
IN TRAIN

parse?
Is this a Yorkshire "int".???
Ugh!

Top quark here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_quark
Leading=top. Egypt used to be the UAR. Q and K around.

Thanks Jono...did not know about UAR.

I don’t think it’s a Yorkshire “int”. Happening is the definition of In Train, one is I, so “possible reason for second biblical flood” must be NT RAIN, presumably NT as in New Testament. Not a great clue, to my eye, if that’s how it works