S&B 2024 – another by A. Bailey

Logic/parsing

cutting half of O(R)CHE(STRAL), and moving R (regina, queen) just before the end = OCHRE

EN(T)OURAGE (team) taking T (time) out, and replacing it with C (first letter, or head, of Coaching)

PLUTO (cartoon dog) + C_AT around (inspiring) R (leader of Riot)

double defn. – a shape can be ROUND; and a bullet can be a ROUND

B_INDS (ties) around EH (he, reversed)

hidden word in, i.e. the join between, ‘cognosCENTI and MOnitoring)

anag, i.e. hell of RAISE

double defn – Lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, can be in a sweet (acid drop, I presume!), giving you strange dreams (again, I presume!); and LSD can be pounds, shillings and pence in imperial money, or mint!

anag, i.e. excavating, of FAR IN

[‘infra dig’ being beneath oneself, or demeaning]

K (king) + NA_SH (John Nash, Georgian/Regency architect) around VI (six, or sex, in Latin/Roman numerals)

(C)ENSURES – condemns, omitting C (Conservative)

homophone, i.e. heard – Karl MARX is famously an ‘underground resident’ of Highgate Cemetery!; and Marx can sound like MARKS, previous currency, or bread, of several European countries

anag, i.e. exploding, of LOTS HEARD

[‘camp’, as in Army camp]

punning CD (charade?) – a lady hoping to be married, or in a match, traditionally keeps a drawer full of clothes (kit) and other items, in readiness – her TROUSSEAU

&lit-ish? – ‘M’, James Bond’s boss, had a secretary called Ms (MONEY)PENNY, so after MONEY is removed the balance remaining is a PENNY

Logic/parsing

SOU (obsolete, or redundant, French coin, or copper) + P (penny, 31A)

CD – people often offer ‘…a penny (31A) for your THOUGHTS…’

P_O (chamber pot) around (touring) ES (El Salvador)

REP (representative, agent) + RISAL (anag, i.e. assorted, of LIRAS)

A(S)CETIC, disciplinarian, losing S (son) = ACETIC

anag, i.e. ruined, of INSECURE + CR (credit)

hidden word in, i.e. a product of, ‘colosSAL UK Inbreeding’

[a new one on me – a sightdog being one that hunts by sight (and speed), rather than scent (and endurance)]

WEE (little) + D (old, for penny, or 31A)

31A (PENNY) in front of BLACK gives a Victorian postage stamp

CD! A NARCISSIST is usually please with what they see in a mirror!

initial letters, i.e. leading, of ‘Operators Distributed Appropriate Hotel Suites’

[an oda, or odah, being a room in a harem where an old master of a Muslim house would keep his wives (dutch = Cockney rhyming slang for wife – ‘Duchess of Fife’!)]

anag, i.e. awful, of DUD FLARE

[a ‘penny dreadful’ being a cheap sensational serial or book, sold for a penny…]

maybe an additive double defn? – a FARTHING is a quarter of an old penny, or 1/4D; and putting PENNY (31A, again!) by FARTHING gives a PENNY-FARTHING bicycle, or a ‘high roller’!

A toupe, or wig, could be a con trick to pretend one has hair, so a ‘hair con’ – and a Cockney might drop the H to call it an ‘AIR CON!

HEAVE (lift) + N (number)

[referencing the song ‘Pennies from heaven’!]

MI and TE are two notes from sol-fa notation

[referencing the biblical story of ‘the widow’s mite’]

homophone, i.e. sound – WRAPPED (wound round) can sound like RAPT (spellbound)

TI_N (metal) around (invested into by) Y (yen)

[‘capital’ of Kazakhstan in the financial sense, not geographically!]