Rt17

[redglenys]

8a let it go or make hunchback score [9] ?I?o?????
5d footballer hugging two daughters with hawk [6] ???d?e hoddle or waddle
6d be sparing with sandpiper [5] ???n?

[sandyRoe]

8a Rigoletto

[Oldred]

5d peddle

[Oldred]

6d stint

[redglenys]

thank you both
I thought rigoletto but could not work out why

[sandyRoe]

an anagram of 'let it go or'.

[sandyRoe]

And he's the hunchback jester in an opera of the same name.

[redglenys]

thank you, that did not come up in my anagram solver

[elliemay1]

anagram of let it go or and he is a hunchback in the opera

[Baldric]

Try
http://anagram-solver.net/