Thank you for your entries; I enjoyed many clever touches.
My short list of likes includes the simplicity of tyke@6 and paul@9, the neat Chanel No. 5 of buddy@10, the French flavour of jono@4, the ingenious subtractive anagrams of fieryjack@15 and jono@25. I also liked the construction of patrick27@20 but am dubious about NC for New College.
My choice for first place, after much agonising, goes to fieryjack@15 with Laughing Cher abandoned her gig after rocking opening (6)[b/]
Congratulations, fj; I was struggling for an appropriate prize because all the rocket launch videos seemed so long, so to
Thanks for the mention, as a newby, paulhabershon.
I hope it is appropriate to comment after the prizegiving, but I did not intend NC = New College, rather n = new, and c = college … separately. Very well deserved, fieryjack, a fiendish clue!