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Andy C
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ICQ#: Everton, Plymouth, Sapporo, Erps-Kwerps Gender: Male Miles Malleson Plain Chocolate Bahlsen Choco Liebniz Candide None of the Above Pet Sounds Location: I Get Around Birthday: 06/07
posted 08-02-2010 11:01

 
The difficulty was not the capital letter; it's that a cryptic clue ought to lead to a single solution. When you've solved it, you should be pretty confident that the answer couldn't be anything else. There have been hundreds of cover versions of Something, and I'm guessing that several of the cover artists fitted the letter count.
 
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ICQ#: Everton, Plymouth, Sapporo, Erps-Kwerps Gender: Male Miles Malleson Plain Chocolate Bahlsen Choco Liebniz Candide None of the Above Pet Sounds Location: I Get Around Birthday: 06/07
posted 08-02-2010 11:26

 
Musical theatre for torch singer? (5,5)
 
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#340209
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 08-02-2010 12:20

 
I didn't even know she'd done a cover. But indeed she has, along with (according to wikky-p's) at least 150 other acts.

Blimey, nef.
 
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 08-02-2010 12:30

 
Mind, the only other (7,6)-er I can find is Phyllis Dillon.
 
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#340215
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posted 08-02-2010 12:37

 
Sorry about Something.

My original clue was Left Something on Abbey road which would have been better. I can't remember why I changed it.
 
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ICQ#: ABR, ABE Gender: Male graduate Bat Out of Hell Location: London Birthday: 11/03
posted 08-02-2010 13:25

 
Light opera looks to be a real boon for road safety (4,4)
 
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 08-02-2010 14:35

 
They cause discomfort and are unsettling if not in cats' eyes (5,10)
 
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posted 08-02-2010 15:31

 
Arsenal Player with yeast infections, Mavis?

(4, 8)
 
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#340299
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ICQ#: Walton and Hersham, Cambridge United, Arsenal Gender: Male David Mitchell Apple, raisin and cinnamon cookie 'The Prodigal God', Tim Keller John 10:10 Prefab Sprout Location: Cambridge Birthday: 01/03
posted 08-02-2010 16:12

 
They delivered song thrushes to me in a potty (3,12)
 
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ICQ#: Tamworth, Lincoln City Gender: Male I'd like Sean Penn, but I'd probably get Sean Bean Viennese Whirl... mmm crumbly Mr Bump - Roger Hargreaves You can't polish a turd Radiohead - The Bends and all the Smiths stuff Location: Tamworth Birthday: 04/01
posted 08-02-2010 20:59

 
Like The Housemartins along with rainforests, stories of Walkers in the Lakes. (8,3,7)
 
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ICQ#: Walton and Hersham, Cambridge United, Arsenal Gender: Male David Mitchell Apple, raisin and cinnamon cookie 'The Prodigal God', Tim Keller John 10:10 Prefab Sprout Location: Cambridge Birthday: 01/03
posted 08-02-2010 22:23

 
Ingeniously Swallows and Amazons characters find disused railway formerly running in Jacobsfield, they say (9,7)
 
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Last Edit: 08-02-2010 23:01 By irony towers. Reason: clunkier but fairer
 
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ICQ#: Walton and Hersham, Cambridge United, Arsenal Gender: Male David Mitchell Apple, raisin and cinnamon cookie 'The Prodigal God', Tim Keller John 10:10 Prefab Sprout Location: Cambridge Birthday: 01/03
posted 09-02-2010 11:04

 
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ D / _ _ D _ _ _ _

I'm anticipating a wrist-slap about the 'disused railway' part, which may not quite be conventional.
 
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#340559
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 09-02-2010 11:14

 
I've had this since late yesterday evening, and I do know what you mean: bit of an envelope-push job. But that's OK, I think.

I haven't really had time yet to chain the answer into a clue; it's a bit of a tricky one, for my money, and needs a sustained stretch of time. So anyone feel free to cut in.
 
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 09-02-2010 12:17

 
Curve thrown by Yogi "Headless" O'Hara, perhaps so named by the Cleveland Indians? (8,5)
 
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 09-02-2010 12:23

 
(Quite pleased with that in the end...)
 
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posted 09-02-2010 13:18

 
Rakemaker dropped thorium in Cuyahoga River.

(7)
 
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 09-02-2010 13:47

 
Power relationships depicted in William Hogarth's mischievous "As Hot Turns Cold" (11,4)

[Edit: briefly dodgy letter count, sorry.]
 
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#340616
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posted 09-02-2010 13:50

 
How does irony's Cleveland Indians clue work?
 
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#340617
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 09-02-2010 13:53

 
CLEVERLY swallows AND but then loses RY; INDIANS as meaning of "Amazons". It's the fact that the abbreviation RY is split that makes it a bit cheeky, I'd say.
 
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posted 09-02-2010 13:55

 
It's occurred to me that mine's a bit ambiguous; apologies. If it helps narrow it down, the word "power" is meant to be significant.
 
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