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Oh, that Ethel.

For fork’s sake, Jono - stop it.

😂

Need help parsing paul@14...can't figure out the second 'c'. TIA.

Hi Geeker
I can see the i going, but I too can't see where the other C comes from.

Aargh! My bad! OK it'll have to be;

Bar’s under new management since, with control, I released noxious fart action (10)

Time's up, many thanks to the entrants. Relatively few entries, but very high quality and difficult to judge.

I feared the chosen word pushed the envelope of reasonably assumed GK, but went for it because of bad boy potential (FA and the centrally reversed FART).

So the winner is mattrom@9 with Wind back Tory law about work representation. More subtle and tasteful 😉 than paul@25, which I also liked.

Tie for silver and bronze (missing out by the narrowest of margins) between jono@11's acrostic and buddy@19's anagram.

Special mention to the brilliant jazz composer references by simplesimon@5 and buddy@7, but I decided the song titles were too arcane (see above).

Also enjoyed aristo@6, paul@8, tyke51@13 and 16.

Congratulations to mattrom! Thanks to other entrants and apologies to the worthy clues slighted.

Prizes (sticking to music rather than politics/media 😬):

Overview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxbLSJuzsCc

Famous Monk contrafact (tip of hat to ss@5) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5BYYggyZuY

Music extras (RIP Jeff Beck)

JB plays on this?! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-r_X3kuQrw&t=25s

Was JB the model for Nigel Tufnell? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDzJu20zfMU

Nice one Mattrom - well done! Tanks for the mention Geeker - loved the Spinal Tap clips - I`m sure Jeff enjoyed the movie as much as anyone!

Thanks for hosting Geeker. You’re right, the titles were arcane.
Some excellent clues as usual
Nice one Mattrom, well done.

Very nice, mattrom. Thanks, geeker.