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Partial wordplay help needed

Peculiar talk at a choral work (7) CONTATA. Definition is clear and AT+A is clear but how does "peculiar talk" = CONT

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1a

The appeal of cricket (4,4) _O_ _/_ _ _T

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14a

Old film company in America (7,5). _E_T_RY/U_I_N. Also need help understanding how this works: Bush may go before it, lending support to cleaner newspaper (5,9) DAILY TELEGRAPH. I know daily is a...

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Telegraph Toughie No. 55

Need help finishing this one. 17A: What's conveyed by a bearing with minimal yen? (6) _ _A_H_. 25A: One at the forefront of colonial experience (5) C_I_ _.

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Local Cumbrian Paper

Snake trail watched by spectators on the bank (4-4) x O x T - x A x E Left the rest in confusion in the exploit (8) x E x x R x E x Many thanks for any help offered

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12d

Campaigning against an area for play? (7) I_ _ _E_D. INFIELD? Don't get the campaigning against bit.

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14a

Quietly yearn for table linen (6) NAPERY. That's table linin. How does the "quiety yearn for" play into it?

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3d & 6d

Definitions OK on both. Wordplay help needed. 3D Bird that goes around the pier (8) STARLING. 6D Dead, we are told, and can be eaten (6) MUTTON.

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26d

Suburb of Cairo a sharp turn back (4) _I_A

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8a

Compulsory pre-marital reading-matter (5) _A_N_

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Fish (; )<

Fish around river waterways (8) T_E_ _ _ _ _

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19d

Hits puck then turns (6) _M_A_ _ _

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Telegraph Toughie No. 38

Just getting around to this now and am stuck. Not good with cricket. Can anyone help with this large clue: 7&9 Might lbw in cricket have been similarly short? (4-4,2,1, 11)