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No splitting small weight for us after one is a buffoon (9)


I = after one
G + NO + RAM = No splitting small weight
US = for us
buffoon = definition

I gather no ordinary reason after many unusual sayings start bonehead (9)

Manuel, amusing or stupid? (9)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6EaoPMANQM

Stupid girl takes a string to America (9)

It doesn't work. Forget that post!

Illiterate in design, or a must-have item? (9)

(Answer contained in clue)

Ian Dury, smoking, removes Dinky toy from blockhead (9)

Drunk, Magnus, or I wouldn't be a Mastermind contestant (9)

"Drunk" - anagrind
"Magnus, or I" - anagram fodder
"wouldn't be a Mastermind contestant" - definition

(For those who don't know, Mastermind is a quiz programme where contestants answer questions on both a specialised subject and on general knowledge. It was originally hosted by our late local worthy Magnus Magnusson, whose daughter Sally, a BBC Scotland newsreader, still stays in our village).

Fool is roaming around you and me (9)

Anagrind: around
Fodder: roaming
... Gives: ignoram ... + us

Gram and I have nous? Weirdly, he doesn't (9)

Anagrind: weirdly
Fodder: gram + I + nous
Cryptic Def: he doesn't (have nous)