Thanks to the entrants on this summer weekend (final day of World Athletics Ch), relatively few clues but high quality as always. One vote (bigblind) uncast, but let's wrap it up.
Gold goes to mattrom@21, 7 votes for the intricate
Just like the British, warding off cold with a small hot water bottle?
Three-way tie on 5 votes between paul@7, buddy@10 and fiery@14.
Paul gets silver based on total of 11 votes for 3 clues, with his
Fruit found at a Majorcan beach party
No tie-break for bronze, co-medalists buddy with
North Carolina town has difficulty pursuing corrupt cabal and fiery with
A workplace keeps Johnny around, perhaps for instrumentation.
Congratulations to the winners! I had a Jimmy Durante clip bookmarked, but buddy@5 got there first. I expected a lot of music clues, so heavy on music clips.
African:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bikEKd5d89w
Clash (spike's was excellent):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ
Nerdy material (string theory, discussion of Calabi-Yau manifolds @4:07):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37JKlkow7v0
And for add'l bonus (or punishment): 2 classical music clips.
My favorite J. S. Bach, alas, is in the word:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjYQlmpS69k
A lesser-known Czech composer is a Spoonerism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbcEcBZoTpc