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Iconic Moscow store embroiled in a lease dispute (8)

With scattered support gone, agreement collapsed; you reportedly started to resurrect the issue (8)

(AGREEMENT - TEE + U + T)*

Sorry again Jono, it’s an illness - we must get out rome*

Row craft with FBI aboard, having seized uranium (8)

Fight about Guam rent (8)

Frenzied anger leads to uncontrollable massive tantrum, explosive row results (8)

((ANGER)* + U+M+T)*

We obviously didn’t get out.

Reason to stick within agreed starting price of accommodation (8)

Case of losing nothing from own slang around posh chaps (8)

U MEN in ARGoT

Primarily a recommendation, General Motors encouraged not to stifle union talks (8)

Primarily - indicator
A R G M E N T
Stifle - command
U - abbr
Talks - def

Backing actor given boot space with tense debate.

Thanks to the valiant twelve setters who entered this week’s challenge.

Enjoyed anagrams from Chris, Tyke, Geting and Darla. I would have put money on “nutmeg” making an appearance, but alas no.

Liked Buddy’s “silver” argent…

At length burst in the argent revelry,
With plume, tiara, and all rich array
- Keats

Also liked Geting’s Moscow GUM store (which I’ve visited).

Impressed by the SS team’s ground breaking “subtract-one-anagram-from-another-anagram-then-add-another-anagram-and-then-make-an-anagram-from-everything-that’s-left” device. It may catch on!

Liked Aristo’s use of “foul” for gum and Paul’s “half hearted gu(n)men”.

Also liked Paul’s “shortcut” device but I think it yields CU rather than UT. One for the notebook though.

h1982, welcome, and I hope to you enter the other challenges we have running each week.

I thought “row, beef, stew, case and spat” were all clever definitions as they can be readily disguised as something else.

Anyway, there are VHCs for …

Tyke: Proof rum agent spiked (8)
Aristo: Are religious texts full of foul bickering? (8)
Paul: Half-hearted gunmen get in a right stew (8)

But the winner is Mattrom with…

Spat the dummy, upset and stopping a tear (8)


Congratulations Mattrom, your prize is, and I quote, “a sketch, skit, spoof or humorous vignette of an unconventional nature intended to cause grievous mental confusion to the Great British public!”

https://youtu.be/evPZ-0UhL1E

Cheers all!
Ttfn