Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Guy Profumo]

_ O R_ E _ / R O _ E R _ _

Corrction fat fingers

[seand]

Was Morley Robert's strike partner briefly at Reading (Football League, English Championship kings) initially? (5)

Given the obscurity of Guy's set up I make only a half-hearted apology for the torturous follow on

[ad hoc]

Blimey. I had Roberts and even looked up the list of famous people with that surname in wikipedia, and yet there was nothing that fit. Good detective work sean.

[ad hoc]

Tyrannical German, Fleck in charge (8)

[Duncan Gardner]

Despotic MP an unusual harbinger of 'new normality' to come? (4-8)

[Guy Profumo]

Morley Roberts?

'tis a well-known and respected author in these parts.

[Duncan Gardner]

. . S . / . . . . . M . .

ps in Guy's last, if you'd prefixed 'township' with 'West Yorkshire' (say) one of the regulars would have solved it quickly as per the tough clue easy answer rule

Alas, it's made me think of local husband and wife MPs Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper

[ad hoc]

Burst main? Cool...post-pandemic! (12)

[Duncan Gardner]

Not sure if I'm right, but neat clue if so

Cosmopolitan purges Yorkshire's Uncle Joe for anti-Semitic slur (8)

[ad hoc]

Yes, that's right. My thesaurus (not really my thesaurus, the online one) tells me that pandemic and cosmopolitan are synonyms in certain contexts

[Duncan Gardner]

. . . T . . . .

[Duncan Gardner]

. . . T . . S .

[ad hoc]

Precipitate crisis rootless one! (11)

[Guy Profumo]

Errand we ran for peripatetic man (8)

[Capybara]

Wandering wanderer in reconstructed steelwork pen (5,7)

[Capybara]

_ E_ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ E _

[irony towers]

"Hearts abandoning God" - tedious publication issued by Peter Knowles; it has an acclaimed cover (3,5,3,10)

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

All Along The Watchtower - within which a remix may be required to answer did Batman's nemesis snub those who drank his wine? (11)

[irony towers]

Businessmen disregard US lager (5,5)

[irony towers]

_ _ _ R _ / _ _ G _ _

[irony towers]

C _ _ R _ / _ _ G _ _

[Duncan Gardner]

Initially Coors Light is the only real IPA substitute- hits the button (8)

[seand]

Lawyer confused around clitoris (9)

[Duncan Gardner]

Solicitor's longest lasting career (6,10)

[Duncan Gardner]

. . D . . . / . . . F . . . . . .