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(brats, lady etc)* — a nice easy start.

O(RAGI)O,US – stormy.  O=zero=duck (in cricketese) and RAGI=millet.

R,I in spy’s*

S(K)UNK – particularly intense version of weed. I’m told.

ORT(HIC)ON – ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Joe_Orton and hic=(Latin) this.  A TV camera tube.

two meanings – where kitty is also a jail (archaic — just “was it”)

TON,LET – indeed a skirt of armour. Not many on offer though these days.

GO,DETIA* – yes, it’s a plant.

SH[r]ED

(for a)* — I wanted this to be some sort of comp. anag. by somehow removing ‘crew’ (since “cut”) from screwball.  But it’s just a hairdo v. different from a flattop.

ASK,ANCE – where ance=Scots “once”.

BREW=concoction, IS=consists of.

V[eg],OAR=row – seed time in the Shetlands.

A(MORE)TTI – more=rather in (at it)*.  turns out there are at least two other 8-letter Italian lovers (other than Casanova) — amorosos and amorists.

GI(R)NS – hands up if you had G(R)INS here initally — which is just as plausible.  Anyway, GIRNS=grins, makes a grotesque face.

Enamel-like scales.  GA(NO)IN – where no=abbrev(number) and GAIN=convenient.

cong. anag. &lit – (constipated)* = (STENOTIC=this, pad) — I’m going to go out on a limb and claim that somewhere there’s a STENOTIC pad that treats stenosis=constipation.

(eaten to brace)*

BAR,RIO[t]

S,LIT – rev(til=sesame)

TUS(H)KER – a peat-spade in the Shetlands.

[p]ROSIT – Scots rosin – useful for a violin player and prosit is European “cheers!”

C,A,POTA(S)TO – a (moveable) bridge on a string instrument.  S=special and C,A=first letters of “courses after”.

E,I,K,ON – alt. spelling of icon.

two meanings – ref. DOUBLE fault in tennis.

gun* in led=”following round”.

I guess the wordplay is SPONGE,BAGS = a sponger might try to obtain “bags” of free stuff.

S(K)ITTER,IN,G

CHI(AS)MATA – “as” in (a match I)* – intersections (in anatomy)

HAVEN,OT – where OT isn’t the Old Testament but Occupational Therapy.

Tough clue — A(R)KITE – where R=take (recipe), KITE is our plane and finally if you managed to survive the flood on Noah’s ark, you’re entitled to be known as an ARKITE.

FE(RR)ET – where RR=Rolls-Royce, our “roller” and also two meanings: both “rummage” and “thin ribbon”.

Dispute “results” from “Alter”CATION(“this”) and a positively charged ion.  Struggled to figure this out for a while having understood the definition.

WIN=result, NA=rev(an=one). Scots “will not”.

D(RAC[e])O – dragon lizard.

two meanings – first is related to drinking and the second is an Indian plantation.