Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[ad hoc]

Frequently taking out rennet for retreat (5)

[Duncan Gardner]

Slowest often around the Far East (9)

[Duncan Gardner]

__ __ W __ __ T __ F __ ?

[Guy Profumo]

One French lout shags slapper nr. Lowestoft (6,5)

[ad hoc]

Shed hair in humdrum Oulton Broad (5)

(I think, anyway. Though I'm not sure if the anagram to make Oulton works exactly)

[Duncan Gardner]

Oulton Broad is rather pleasant.

1 Ted Moult fans- Ho. Sap., Choc. Dig.? (4,3,4,7)

And for your bonus

2 World of Sport presenter assesses situation (6,6,4)

3 President not returning to Marching Season (8,5)

4 Thought of joining Hungarian Army- then couldn't be arsed (1,3,1,7,8,6,3)

5 Justify Emu's career then (3,4,2,5, 3)

Solutions are linked to structural unemployment in the 1980s

[ad hoc]

All man? Well...roughly half man, half biscuit as a rule (9)

[Guy Profumo]

On. As in one in RP but in French

[ad hoc]

Ah. Je vois.

_ _ _ C _ _ _ _ _

[Guy Profumo]

Ah. I was trying to finagle "Garibaldi" into the solution

[Guy Profumo]

Oulton Broad is rather pleasant.

1 Ted Moult fans- Ho. Sap., Choc. Dig.? (4,3,4,7)

And for your bonus

2 World of Sport presenter assesses situation (6,6,4)

3 President not returning to Marching Season (8,5)

4 Thought of joining Hungarian Army- then couldn't be arsed (1,3,1,7,8,6,3)

5 Justify Emu's career then (3,4,2,5, 3)

Solutions are linked to structural unemployment in the 1980s

5 isn't true any more is it?

Anyhoo. What are the other ones?

Apart from 2

[ad hoc]

4 is I was a teenage armchair honvéd fan.

(though technically Honvéd is a sort of homeland militia rather than the army)

[ad hoc]

_ _ _ C _ L _ _ _

[ad hoc]

M _ _ C _ L _ _ _

[Kevin S]

Nasty masculine rodent can fight at last (10)

[Duncan Gardner]

Missing HMHB solution is TRUMP/TON (rev) RIOTS

[Guy Profumo]

Star act who culminates with unkindest cut of all? [8]

[Kevin S]

Hmmm, that wasn't quite what I was going for...

Nasty masculine rodent can fight at last (10)

_ _ _ _ _ O _ _ N _

[Guy Profumo]

Hmmm, that wasn't quite what I was going for...

Nasty masculine rodent can fight at last (10)

_ _ _ _ _ O _ _ N _

Bah.

Apologies.

Please move on, people, nothing to see here!

[Kevin S]

Nasty masculine rodent can fight at last (10)

_ A _ _ _ O _ _ N _

[ad hoc]

Good clue Kev

Bug users of OTF to be malevolent (6)

[Duncan Gardner]

Weevil, Sir? Cooked with bundles of energy (9)

[Kevin S]

Cutting 52 livewires is a dramatic manoeuvre (6)

[Duncan Gardner]

Can swerve around the solution (6)

[ad hoc]

Critically responding with answer full of meandering (11)