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Screw wants protective cell installed in either end of prison (5)

T-cell in Sing Sing

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Screw wants protective cell installed in either end of notorious prison (5)

Police chief passes time with grass? (5)

Hurt coming from worst ingrate (5)

Grotesque giants not a gouge (5)

Isaac Stern's virtuosic animato agitates second fiddle (5)

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Grass admits Treasury fraud (5)

Thanks to all who entered this week’s challenge.

A tough one to judge and if you had a favourite clue that I’ve not mentioned below, please do feel free to give it some love and appreciation!

I liked Darla’s “runs out of thread”, Amej’s “relative density” (I have a degree in physics but I still had to look up the abbreviation just to make sure!), and the hiddens from Aristo, Geeker, Tyke, Darla and Baccy were all entertaining.

Top three in no particular order…
Paul@29 with a very neat surface
Geeker@22 with a great construction
SimpleSimon@24 with a very clever acrostic and extended definition.

The winner is SimpleSimon’s…

Joplin’s rag leads to signature tune in Newman’s grift (5)

Congrats Chris and Sue, here are your prizes…

Joplin and Newman
https://youtu.be/gJxtHEypPJk?si=RRNm4ozKSN6HSMoq

And my local bees
https://youtu.be/NQuI6wB9TvY?si=FnyddZPS3fDeqr7U

Cheers all,
Ttfn!

Well done SS - confess I never spotted the acrostic at first glance! Cheers Jono - appreciate the mention and enjoyed the clips 🐝

Well done, ss! Thanks to jono for hosting, clips and mentions (unexpected given the many strong clues).

Add bacchanal@36 and geting@31-32 to the "like" category.