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bigbadmarty2

13th July 2021, 20:23
Register held by vulgar icon of the revolting French (8)
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fieryjack

13th July 2021, 21:59
The two French bits cycled to the fortress (8)
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mathprofrockstar

13th July 2021, 22:10
A kind of relief 'til the French storm this prison.
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bigbadmarty2

13th July 2021, 22:37
Is ballet embracing modernisation to make it cooler ? (8)
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penda

13th July 2021, 22:38
Hi
" By degrees the short farmer was found in French lockdown " (8)
Cheers Thea(o)
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bigbadmarty2

14th July 2021, 12:48
Taking this castle threatens King in sweet exchange of pawn for bishop (8)
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paulhabershon

14th July 2021, 21:38
Many thanks for the entries from 10 setters. BASTILLE was of course chosen for the date, but I thought correctly that there would be plenty of scope in the many synonyms for prison.

I enjoyed the ingenious chess clue by bbm@26, even though no genuine player would use castle for rook, despite what the dictionaries say. There was clever wordplay by jono@18, bbm@21 and penda@25. There were original ideas for 'bae' by mathprof@6 and paul@9, but perhaps too specialist for the average cryptic crossword. 'Choreographed' was a nice anagram indicator by tyke@5 and the anagrams by chrise@3 and paul@10 had good natural surfaces. However, as so often, first place goes to mattrom@4 for her clever stir-fry combination:

French stir-fry Bill eats

Congratulations, mattrom. I had no idea there was a band called Bastille: https://youtu.be/F90Cw4l-8NY

but you'd better havethis lightly educational prize too:
https://youtu.be/6fxheSSozW0
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tyke51

14th July 2021, 21:54
Well done Mattrom - cheers Paulh!
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jono

14th July 2021, 22:01
Congrats Mattrom, nicely done, cheers PaulH, good challenge
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chrise

14th July 2021, 22:06
Congrats mattrom and thanks paulH. I found the Bastille clip pretty much incomprensible!
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