Independent 12,360 by Eccles

TAG (identify) US (American)

kUBRICk (Stanley Kubrick, ‘legendary director’) missing the first and last letters or ‘taking clothes off’ in (‘screened by’) LATE (‘behind’)

An anagram (‘badly written’) of STAFF REDO

I (one) NAN (‘elderly relative’) E (first letter or ‘beginning’ of emerge)

An anagram (‘out’) of READ REGULATION

IN (popular) DUCE (Italian leader) D (last letter or ‘back’ of motherland)

Hidden (‘section of’) in leakING RAINcoat

A reversal (‘after returning’) of TELEThON (charity broadcast) missing (abandoning) ‘h’ (hard)

FLAT (uniform) OUT (available)

GOOD (fine) FOuR (4) NOTHING (0) missing (‘dispatching’) ‘u’ (united)

RULE (canon) round (‘hiding’) B (billion)

An anagram (‘playing’) of MODEST HIT

S (son) AGED (matured) BY round (‘eating’) ‘ER (that woman, dropping the ‘h’ – as might be spoken in Bow in the East end of London)

D (daughter) REAR (behind)

TIT (idiot) RATIONS (limits)

GRAND (great!) AD (promotion)

SEPTIC (infected) round C (cold) + AL (Alabama)

A reversal (‘boosted’) of REFILl (replenishment of drink) missing the last letter (‘briefly’)

BELIEF (confidence) round A S R (alternate ‘odd’ letters in absurd)

Hidden in victIM IDEntified

AT (visiting) A CAM (river in East Anglia) A – we visited the Atacama in 2015, the driest non-polar desert on the planet. We arrived in a thunderstorm and a day later we were making snowballs!

sEVENs (‘Rugby game’) without the first and last letters (‘wingers’)

INveSTIGATOR (detective) ‘losing’ ‘ve’ (first and last letters or ‘extremes’ of versatile)

DOT (Dorothy) + a homophone (‘picked up’) of COMMA (butterfly)

An anagram (‘extraordinary’) of DIG AT NATO

TOO (in addition) BAG (win) round (‘drilled’ by) L (large)

OR (gold) ICE (diamonds) round (‘enthralling’) I (single) F (female)

R (Republican) in (‘stopping’) DEAD (late)

IT (sex) T (first or ‘initial’ letter of Trump) in NY (New York – Trump’s home city)

IRISh (‘of Emerald Isle’ – Ireland) missing the last letter (‘briefly’)