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strangelybrown

22nd January 2023, 11:47
24d Heresy hunter once resorted to ordaining right squit (5,10).
The first word looks like 'grand' so I'm wondering if this is 'grand inquisitor', but I can't parse the second word.

45a Stump I replace, partly removed (6)
'umpire' is contained in the first three words, but if that's the answer, where's the definition?

37a Keat's pot boy, son in bar for cricketers (5)
B?S??
No idea what's going on here.
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jono

22nd January 2023, 11:50
First one looks like an anagram of (ordaining r squit)*
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chrise

22nd January 2023, 11:54
37 BASIL
Keats poem "Isabella nd the pot of basil"
S(on) in BAIL
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malone

22nd January 2023, 11:54
37 Basil, boy - Bail, bar for cricketers, with S, son inside. There's a Keats poem with Basil... I don't know the details.
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jono

22nd January 2023, 11:55
Keats’ pot is a reference to The Pot of BASIL (a boy in love). Bar for cricketers is BAIL and S for son
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chrise

22nd January 2023, 11:55
Did the clue really have "Keat's"? Should be "Keats's"!
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jono

22nd January 2023, 12:00
I thought the same Chris!
The final one is perhaps intended as &Lit in that the umpire would replace a stump which had been removed?
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strangelybrown

22nd January 2023, 12:19
My typo on 37a, the clue was written as 'Keats's'.
Poor form to have to be familiar with his work to understand a clue, in my opinion.
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