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Spike @44

Buddy @23 just ahead of Tyke 10

Chris, I think…
Fiery@6 is RE(d)START the bird (singer) -d, with ‘government program’ as the definition - see Chambers.
Paul@13 is REST (excess) + ART (guile).

Thanks jono

Several I liked - SS @4, Jono @9, Tyke @10 and 21, buddy @24, and geeker @41.

Vote amej @33

simplesimon @4

Mattrom 15, just ahead of Paul 11.

Paul - the album I’m thinking of was a studio recording (by the sound of it) with Burl Ives on lead vocals, male backing singers and minimal (or no) instrumentation.

Bizarre is good! (I wouldn’t like to be thought of other than being at a slight angle to the universe).

PS

Happy New Year to all (dancing the polka isn’t a bad way to start it!).

ss@4

Like buddy@23, raffles@25 and 27, dorrien@7

raffles@7: Weirdly, POLKA has featured in 2 cryptics in the past few days. Forget the papers, could have been any combination of Grauniad/Indy/FT.

Geeker - they’re trying to tell us something 😜