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Turkey you beheaded lost blood and down (8)

TR OU BLED
Not the one that was pardoned, of course

Barney Rubble heard in Halifax (7)

not Nova Scotia - cheers Chrise!

Annoy two fish briefly (7)

Trou(t) Ble(y)

Before our doddering time, drained and confused (8)

T before ROU
drained: BLED

Kick up a stink in divided Ulster during these times (8)

BO (rev) inside ULSTER*

down clue

A tweak if I may ...

Uncertain times for small boy in wasr-torn Ulster (8)

*war-torn

Thanks everybody for your efforts and parses - saved me a lot of trouble! I enjoyed them all. Apologies if I haven't mentioned yours. So many fine entries as usual. "Rouble" proved popular - as in real life currently!

Firm favourites; Buddy 5, Jon 8, Tyke 12,
Bronze; Marty 26
Silver; Mattrom 21

But Gold has to go to Jon's topical inspired uses of capital in 9:

"Unrest seen in capital of Tajikistan and capital of Russia"

Your prizes are;

Musical; (as you might have anticipated)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs4RG9u8IVU

Mathematical;

https://www.rd.com/list/math-riddles/ and

Memorable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M98cs5KuhTs&list=PL-yFc-FjGWJ-7wcVxXzHHK1GpVJji0AFm&index=1&t=256s

Reading Chris's clue I have to share a true story;

I went on a date with a girl who was from Bradford. She shared that her parents were Ukranian and had come here after the war. So I ventured
"t'rouble up mill"....

congrats jono and thanks paul

1st clip a great song, but i never saw the point of that sort of pop video - members "playing" unplugged guitars and miming the singing. they should either have recorded actual performing the song, or gone entirely off piste, as in the classic video for ultravox's vienna.
anyone else remember not the nine o'clock news (?) nice video, shame about the song?

Congratulations Jono.

Thanks for hosting Paul.

C&S