Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[ad hoc]

DG - yes that's pretty likely. People used to listen to Hungarian radio and it was seen as behaviour liable to get you reported to the securitate. There is a hill above Cluj that people used to go to with TV sets run off car batteries to watch Hungarian and international (eg World Cup) football

[Duncan Gardner]

Great Dane plays in Japanese Ceremonial (3,6)

PS thanks AH, apologies for making light of it- possibly as when my parents worked in Eastern bloc embassies the State Security Apparatus was shall we say a tad half-hearted. You'd pick up the phone in your flat to hear a couple of bored staffers chatting in Russian on a party line

[Artificial Hipster]

Not convinced by the spelling there.

Niels Bohr - a dog? (5,4)

Again! That's twice in a week or so I've cocked up on names. Sorry folks.

[Nefertiti2]

Cramped Tea Garden playing Miller, Putin theme song

(1,5,3,8)

[Nefertiti2]

Cramped Tea Garden playing Miller, made a hit for Putin.

(1,5,3,8)

Google will get you this.

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[Nefertiti2]

Cramped Tea Garden playing Miller, made a hit for Putin.

(1,5,3,8)

Google will get you this.

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[Duncan Gardner]

"Shall I swing the election?" rants leading Trump confidante Maryanne Barry (6)

[Nefertiti2]

A pedant writes: "Swung" actually

[Kevin S]

Could be sister of one of the Kellogg's? (8)

[Kevin S]

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[Nefertiti2]

Are Frosties part of a diet containing sufficient fibre ?

(7)

[Artificial Hipster]

Puts off weaving esparto in carts (14)

[Duncan Gardner]

Procrastinates unhelpfully? No Sir! Can be cancerous (8)

[Nefertiti2]

Not prostate - on the contrary one affected is german,
(9)

[Nefertiti2]

Not prostate - on the contrary, one affected is German.
(9)

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[Nefertiti2]

Not prostate - on the contrary, one affected is German.
(9)

_ _ _ R _ _ _ S _

[Nefertiti2]

Not prostate - on the contrary, one affected is German.
(9)

_ N _ R _ H _ S _

[Kevin S]

Peeler undercover in the mob: an anarchist (6)

[ad hoc]

Place one fashionable banana (8)

(I don't get the anarchist clue.)

[Nefertiti2]

not pro-state on the contrary = definition

"one" = "an" "affected" =" arch" (as in "an arch remark") "is German" = "ist"

[ad hoc]

Ah. It was the pro-state division that I was overlooking (I couldnt get the arch bit either but can see it now)

[Nefertiti2]

I was wondering if I should have indicated that like "we hear". I did consider something like "Not prostate (if divided) - on the contrary"

[Kevin S]

I only got it from the missing letters, but see it now.

I wasn't entirely sure about DG's being prostate either. I'd been pondering whether pancreas worked but I couldn't quite nail the wordplay, ending up with a spare 'ott'. Can anyone explain?

[ad hoc]

I think DG's is an anagram of procrastinates with sir and can removed

[Kevin S]

Aha, it was the can that got me. Nice.