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Whispered like a fish (5)

Two old chestnuts:

Like = AS

IDE a favourite fish of setters.

Left in right-angled is arc tangent (5)

[Chris - indeed it’s “I”. One of my favourite scenes from one of my favourite films. Just before they run out of the Irish pub, with the Trellick Tower in the background - designed by Erno Goldfinger and hated by Bruce Robinson (although I like it - 3 floors levels accessed from one corridor was a clever design!). The scene contains an error - “Up the Provos” is scrawled on the shopfront but they didn’t come into being until December ‘69 and the film is set in Sep/Oct)].

[Thanks raffles. Have you ever tried the drink challenge? Take a swig every time one of the characters does? Apparently no-one has ever come out of this unparalytic!]

Coronas I'd emptied, drinking alone (5)

Google assures me that Corona is widely available in the UK. Not a statement on my drinking habits. I am a Dos Equis man.

[Chris, I baulk at the lighter fluid! The average session here in the old sod would knock that challenge into a cocked hat 😉]

Princess’s back in casualty - alone (5)

A slide no novice meant for the audience (5)

Even banshie died not wailing (5)

I got the spelling from this very forum!

Sadie turns and whispers (5)

SADIE*