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Photo taken with new Wetherspoons app available here? (10)

Wow! What a great selection of clues – so many possible winners. All really deserve a mention, but I don’t want to write an essay, so I’ll just comment on my shortlist. Thanks to all contributors, and sorry for those I have passed over.
Heathcliff @2 (once it was explained to me!
Chiaroscuro @3 – loved the “cardinals” for NEWS
Bbm2 @4 (and jws @16) for getting some many newspaper titles in (and presaging the prize!)
GK @8 – good construction of the word
Ixion @7 – ingenious construction and sly reference to the papers’ eventually use in the chippie
Paul @15 – good anagram and concealed definition; not a pleasant image, though!
Theambler @ 24 (and 25) – nice anagram
Les40 @26 – double duty (in a good way) for “new”
BBM2 @31 – clever subtractive anagram
Nice to hear from imagcq again – all well with you now?

OK, decision time. Not easy, but my favourite is:
Chiaroscuro @3
ID required after cardinals make the press? (10)

Your prize (which most of you were probably expecting):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M
Thanks again to everyone for taking part.

Congrats Chiaro & thanx to Chris for hosting & the mention

well done chiaro and thanks to chrise for the word to clue

Nice one chris, well done chiaroscuro

Well done, chiaroscuro; Cardinals was a nice touch.

Thanks to chrise for hosting.

And sorry to chrise for not checking the thread and realising there was a query re my effort. This is becoming a habit as that is two weeks in a row. Many thanks to aristophanes and les40 for parsing the clue. I appreciate your assistance, chaps.

I guessed that would be the clip and it is from one of my favourite all time programmes. Despite being funny I was slightly critical of it at the time as it is an old joke (Lenny Henry, Tracey Ullman and David Copperfield did it previously on Three of a Kind/) and it was the only old joke I knew of that Yes Prime Minister used. Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister constitute some of the best television ever produced, IMHO, and I felt they didn't need to use an old gag with a classic feedline from Sir Humphrey to which Bernard would deliver the punchline, and that was obviously the way that scene was going. Nonetheless, it still makes me smile.

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