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malone

21st March 2022, 06:28
19 Sal, girl = Vo(w), promise (endless = drop the last letter). Salvo, round of applause.

16 Scribe, writer, lose the first letter, with Bag, to shoot, going inside

Crib bag e. Cribbage, game.
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jono

21st March 2022, 06:45
9. The tarantella is a dance once thought a remedy for a tarantula bite (per Chambers)
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whetstone

21st March 2022, 07:00
That's great, thanks for the replies.
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jono

21st March 2022, 07:02
Chambers entry for “tarantism”

tarˈantism noun (med hist)
An epidemic dancing mania esp prevalent in S Italy from 15c to 17c, popularly thought to be caused by the tarantula bite
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whetstone

24th March 2022, 21:55
19d. Endlessly holding up plant
NIGELLA

2d. Book found in cathedral around beginning of last month
DUODECIMO

28a. Blues in Mondrian's Broadway painting
BOOGIE-WOOGIE

23d. Virile eccentric going over house
MACHO

21d. Dedicated person departed after broadcast
OBLATE

25d. Good movement could make this person start afresh
BEING

Parses for the above please.
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malone

24th March 2022, 22:05
21 Oblate, dedicated person (religious stuff). Ob - OB,Outside Broadcast, and Late departed, dead.
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malone

24th March 2022, 22:08
2 Duodecimo, book, (formed of sheets to make 12 leaves.) Duomo = cathedral, famous Italian ones, and Dec 1 is beginning of (the) last month.

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chrise

24th March 2022, 22:08
19 ALLEGIN(g) upwards (not convinced)
2d I just see DEC for last month
28 BOOGIE-WOOGIE BROADWAY is a Mondrian painting, in MOMA
23 CAM is an eccentric (wheel) backwards, then HO for HOUSE
21 OB is Outside Broadcast, LATE is departed
25 BEGIN with the G moving - dreadful clue!
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jono

24th March 2022, 22:10
19d. Reversal of allegian(t) or allegian(ce) I think
2d. The cathedral is the Duomo (in Milan) around Dec 1st
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jono

24th March 2022, 22:15
Sorry scrap my 19d, Chris has it right I think. To allege is to hold
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