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Knock down flipped roof to admit loss (5)

FLOOR (knocked down): roof backwards, admitting L (loss, eg as in football reporting)

Brilliant! Perfect core is the essence of choir instrument (8)

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Quite impatient to bump your thread after 85 mins. Is "Brilliant!" part of the clue or a response to the previous post? Do you have any letters?

Sorry. "Brilliant!" was a response. The clue is just that one sentence. No letters are known, just the number of them.

Sorry. "Brilliant!" was a response. The clue is just that one sentence. No letters are known, just the number of them.

Maybe ABSOLUTE. Definition is perfect. Abs = abdominal muscles, part of the core, o = central letter of choir, lute = instrument. Alternatively Ab singular + s short for is.

I'm not crazy about the equation of abs with core, unless it's metonymic, but I don't know the puzzle, and it's my best guess.