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Orthrus | 10:48 Sat 17th Aug 2019 | Crosswords
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Choice of brew after first love gets promoted (6) O-T___
Court calls solely for judges (4,6)F___/F_U_T
Knackered, as Cook was before last Test innings (7,3) _T_P_E_/O_T

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Option
Foot faults
Clapped out
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1) Option (potion with first O moved to front)
3) Clapped out
1 option?
2 foot fault
3 clapped out
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Can someone parse any of those (and, indeed, why 15D is SMELL A RAT in the present Tense when the clue suggests it should be SMELT?)
Potion - move first o to front
Solely (relating to foot) judges (faults)

For clapped out see

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/45471951

Yes, it should have been be suspicious rather than was suspicious
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OK.

Sport-related clues are a bit of a blind spot of mine.
I see it as ‘smelt’ (past tense) around Lara (test cricketer)
I saw smelt as something fishy (around Lara)

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