Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Duncan Gardner]

...although a familiarity with West Indies cricket in the late 60s should help

[Duncan Gardner]

[Guy Profumo]

Fat charmer shits crap - it's Sion Corn! (6,9)

[Duncan Gardner]

Top anagram boyo

Father Christmas, the Great Satan (5)

[ad hoc]

TV Journalist questions Father Christmas endlessly up north (6)

[ad hoc]

Bugger

[Guy Profumo]

Top anagram boyo

Father Christmas, the Great Satan (5)

Ta.

How did "Sion" work btw?

[Duncan Gardner]

AL QUDS and SION are the Arabic and (archaic?) Hebrew names of Jerusalem.

SION MILLS, the village in Co Tyrone where a severely hungover West Indies team were thrashed by Ireland in 1967. It remains a sporting hotbed- the local side providing players for currently successful NI Women

[Duncan Gardner]

As a child during my spell in Palestine we visited the Garden of Gethsemane regularly- not least as the cinema round the corner showed cartoons every Saturday morning

[Guy Profumo]

Was there no wordplay?

[Duncan Gardner]

GET/HSE/MANE

SION (anagram of IS NO [solution])

[current] (anagram)

[Duncan Gardner]

. . N . .

[ad hoc]

RIP Santa. Murdered by zealot. (8)

[Duncan Gardner]

Partisan as quim fetish (6)

[Guy Profumo]

Erase maquis (5)

[Duncan Gardner]

Ta- scrub the exotic antipasto (10)

[ad hoc]

Mixed bruschetta, out of time - capital! (9)

[Duncan Gardner]

Bucharest in Galicia detains Police spokesman (5)

[ad hoc]

Sting takes pipe to escort (7)

[ad hoc]

_ _ _ D _ _ _

[ad hoc]

_ _ _ D _ C _

[nmrfox]

Conduct oneself properly to gain inner strength (4)

[Guy Profumo]

So…

Pipe is conduit, and conduct is the definition?

??

[ad hoc]

Sting = Con (like in the film "The Sting", with Redford and Newman)
Pipe = Duct

Conduct = Escort

[seand]

Influential Mancunian's tone rose straight to the top in the 90s (5,5)