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Am I on the right track with Number 4

The Clash released a single in 1978 called "Clash City Rockers" and a Casbah is a Citadel fortress within a city, so is it something to do with 'City?'

I think 4 might be "arabic". I've been fixated with the answer for a while, but I couldn't see why. Your post led me to it, Les. "Rock the Casbah" by the Clash?

Les40 and peterm...clasp becomes clash but their (classic) "rock the casbah" is a diversion, the answer is a characteristic of a casbah(in the sense "medina quarter")

4.Clasp rockers enjoying numerous No.1's, like “....the casbah”?

Clash = War + No 1's (first letters of) (r)ockers (e)njoying (n)umerous = REN

Warren? - like the casbah

Yes, like a rabbit warren

Exactly right Les40....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medina_quarter

maze like streets etc, possibly a bit tenuous.

Very good Les.

Hat tipped for that one, Les.
Very long shot for Bureau applying a republican agenda, smell your lot-- F unking?

Not funking AB, but you've got the right idea, a King is rejected in the wordplay.

Just checking back in. Is the Americanism something like THE MAN? I'm actually at a disadvantage with these, since I didn't think of CAN for the other clue; it's just so common here.