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Just wondering if anyone else has an all-time favourite clue ...
Mine is this (pretty sure it was by the late, great Mass and featured in an Independent daily a few years ago). It's not particularly hard but it's very neat:
Keats and Yeats did, but don't. (5)
Hint: it doesn't follow the usual wordplay+definition/definition+wordplay pattern.
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RHYME?
My favourite: "GEGS (9, 4)" (as seen on "Drop the dead donkey")
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It was, indeed, "rhyme" - it had me baffled for half of the day and kicking myself for the rest of it.
Thankfully, I didn't get quite as apoplectic as dear old Henry on being told the solution to "Gegs"!
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That was an excellent show - even today it still works, despite being topical to it's day.
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It's been a while since I saw it, but while it trumpeted topicality as its USP, it really worked on the basis of writing a show and then squeezing a handful of topical references in at the last minute which gave it the stability of a regularly produced show and should mean that it doesn't date too badly.
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There are quite a few clips on youtube: The Teddy[^]
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Yes, but what's the answer? I was certainly a fan of DTDD but totally bamboozled by that clue.
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SCRAMBLED EGGS 
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Henry did not respond as peacefully!
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I went to the recording of the first episode. Told all I knew about the new show and that it could be a real hit.
veni bibi saltavi
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You lucky sunshine!
I'm really rather jealous, which isn't like me at all.
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Aha! Viands - as in VI "and"s.
That took me a while.
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From The Daily Telegraph, many years ago.
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Ah, the good old days! When it used to take longer than 5 minutes to do the Torygraph crossword.
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The Scottish gentleman texted his gratitude to the Parseltongue speaker and gave us a killer bunny! (5, 6)
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Why am I thinking White Rabbit ?
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Because you are on completely the wrong track?
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Ok 
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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner.
You are up Monday.
Care to explain?
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Monty = Scottish name
parseltongue = people that speak to snakes (harry potter)
monty python did the killer bunny sketch
That's how I got it. Not sure about the intricacies like 'texted'
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Close enough:
The Scottish gentleman MON
texted his gratitude TY
to the Parseltongue speaker PYTHON (Snakes and Harry speak Parseltongue)
and gave us a killer bunny!
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Note to self: When launching a Citrix RDP session, it must be launched from the primary monitor! Doing otherwise will only cause unnecessary grief and swearing as the connection dialog vanishes and nothing happens! That's 30 minutes I'll never get back! 
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