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Helloi, Malone!
I did the Sunday Times online today.
I got "tickl 'er",
I got "oath" but could not, and never will, make the connection with "lout".
I honestly rattled "oaf" around in my head and simply could not see it, I'm afraid.
That is, if "oath" is correct!

Rusty, it sounds as if your experience with these clues was the same as mine. I don't think the lout/oaf/oath one works very well.

I think my first one was better!

Good afternoon, Rusty!
We have just come back from a walk!
Glorious out - and much warmer than forecast! I think it must be about 12C?
We walked further, and stayed out longer, than originally intended as the day is so beautiful.
Where did your dander take you? Did you go by the river?
I am trying to visualise the act you describe from BGT.... were the dancers attached by high- wires, then? They must have been? I still cannot quite see how it would work!
I shall see if there is a You tube showing of it?
I think the male version of a ballerina is a ballerinO ?
I have just been reading Malone's clues....I'm a bit late to "have a go" as answers have already been given!
I would have gone for "oath" - but only because my mind is now attuned to the peculiar way Mr. R 's setters work!
I don't understand "tickl'er"? I can see "tickle (h)er" but does "tickler" mean "poser"? I didn't know that?

Elle, until I checked Chambers, I too didn't realise that 'tickler' could mean a puzzle or a difficult problem. I suppose this - learning something new - makes up, a little, for oafs/oaths.

Here's a topical clue from the Everyman......
Bird in very large quarry (6)

Hello, Elle!
I thought you were having a long lie today!
I had a walk up to the park.
Was dodging young girls on horses on the Nature Trail!
The act was "Another Kind of Blue".
It is on YouTube. No idea how they did it, but there were four in the act, but I only saw two. Was impressive.
Anne Bradford gives tickler for poser.
The "oath" one is a bit like the Frith Street or Thrift Street we were expected to know.
Poor setting, in my view, if you set clues which only some folk will understand.
I would be here until the cows came home trying to link "oaf" and "oath"! And the rest of us up here!
I have not heard of ballerino?

Elle, that is a good clue from Everyman!

Hi, Rusty!
Wow! I've just watched "Another Kind of Blue" on Youtube.
Yes, that was a fantastic act!
All the judges just stood there open-mouthed!
I am surprised that it didn't get the "Golden buzzer"? Aren't you?
I don't understand the title of the act, though?
I've just checked out "ballerino" - it isn't in Chambers.........but it is in my Italian dictionary as meaning a "male ballet dancer".
I knew I'd got it from somewhere!
Yes, I thought you would like the Everyman clue - I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it!
I like the Everyman crosswords.... I'm impressed with the parsings always fitting the clues so well.
Mr. R should take note!
(Do you ever give it a go? It is free on the Guardian site).

Hi everyone,
Hello Elle and Rusty

I am not sure Another Kind of Blue' is the title of the act, but might rather be the name of the dancing group; Very clever use of projection technology.