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      Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

      I think I have a candidate. It's an anagram, but it doesn't quite fit any group of words in the clue. Might you have made a mistake, WOM? In particular, might there be an 's' that shouldn't be there?

      (If it is an anagram, you'll also need a quick tutorial about anagram indicators, but that's to be expected.)

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        Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

        Quick PM.

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          Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

          Theatre mask cracks, hat is removed, revealing TV friendly animals (8)

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            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

            Meerkats' habitat: Sanceur (9)

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              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

              So as per our PM exchange, WOM, a clue in the spirit of yours that obeys the conventions could be something like

              Sort of taskmaster, he has a sad face and a happy face (7,5)

              Answer: THEATRE MASKS

              The conventions are there to make it fair, really, by kind of pruning the search tree a bit for the solver.

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                Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                House insurance (5)

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                  Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                  House insurance (5)

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                    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                    Cover daughter first in infancy.

                    (7)

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                      Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                      Can you just confirm the letter count? I've a nine-letter word that fits the clue beautifully.

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                        Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                        Yes 7 is correct.

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                          Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                          Nefertiti2 wrote: Yes 7 is correct.
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                            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                            Nefertiti2 wrote: Cover daughter first at infancy.

                            is perhaps fairer

                            (7)
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                              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                              Got it. My candidate, as you may have guessed, was "childhood".

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                                Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                I didn't guess but yes, "childhood" would have fitted perfectly

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                                  Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                  Dawning of each Christmas Day greeted by a piece of music; perhaps it starts "Long time ago..." (8)

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                                    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

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                                        Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

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                                          Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                          Oh, what a good one.

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                                            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                            A defective anecdote becomes a nuisance Down Under (4,4)

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                                              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

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                                                Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                                Stew - hot, spicy, almost cane toad-like (11)

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                                                  Danish linguist was sycophantic type, by the sound of it (9)

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                                                    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                                    Jespersen leads island empire (7)

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