Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Guy Profumo]

Cat aims egg thrown at prestidigitation act (5,5)

[Guy Profumo]

(or however it's spelt!)

[Duncan Gardner]

Stage magic with no ends- keeps coming back (4)

[Guy Profumo]

Echo and the Bunnymen front man hosted comical lunch (3,9)

[Duncan Gardner]

80s pop star joined Jam, Ian McCulloch, Kraftwerk, Erasure & Rose Royce for 'Start' (3,4)

[Guy Profumo]

It's Jim Kerr's ideal van? (5,3,7)

[Duncan Gardner]

That twattish gobshite Alive and Kicking? The ultimate Mr Evans (3,4)

[ad hoc]

Yorkshireman The Edge is very dapper (4)

[ad hoc]

Yorkshire's The Edge is very dapper (4)

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(slightly edited clue for fairness)

[irony towers]

Salah or Mane, viewed in mirror, with hydrating drink to maintain trim figure - among the most impressive bodies in the North-West (12) or (7,5)

[Guy Profumo]

7,5 surely?


Gloomy tannery built by him in another place (6,7)

[ad hoc]

That one has gone totally over my head. Even with the answer in front of me, I have zero idea how any of it at all works

[Guy Profumo]

I only got it from the & lit definition at the end.

[ad hoc]

I don't even get that. Googling tells me that "Another Place" is a hotel in the Lake District, which i presume is the "in the North West" bit, that aside... whoosh

[irony towers]

Sorry to be catching up with this only now. 'Another place' isn't the solution.

The correct answer is given by Wikipedia with the alternative letter counts (12) and (7,5).

[Guy Profumo]

Thanks

[ad hoc]

Scrounge molten lead around Derwentwater (10)

[ad hoc]

So, I get RED backwards, and hydrating drink as WATER, but how does the rest give us WENT?

[irony towers]

trim figure = (t)WENT(y)

[ad hoc]

OK. It sounds a bit "guess what's in my head" to me, but I can follow it now I;m told. (though isn't a figure usually one digit? A six-figure salary, for example?)

[irony towers]

Yes, fair cop on both counts, ad hoc.

[Duncan Gardner]

From near Borrowdale, Billy Casper's bird goes to North-Eastern Scottish terminus (7)

[ad hoc]

Fragments of Arsenal's Mr Keswick (5)

[Guy Profumo]

Warlords keen to serve up "Chips With Everything" (6,6)

[Guy Profumo]

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