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* She'd tell you what to do, say, on fine (not cloudy) afternoon (6)

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Do you need help with the theme now crackabilly?

Hi again crackabilly, looks like you've got enough to be going on with so I'll butt out unless you post again.

I'm not getting on the same wavelength as the setter at all with this. "She'd tell you what to do" - that is a poor and very vague definition in my opinion and now we have to understand that cloudy means c and afternoon means a. The surface of the clue reads well.

Also "Watches TV with..." is poor as TV is unnecessary there.

Maybe if I could get the first clue it might be different:
They're found in school, endlessly jumping (5).

Thanks

anagram of schoo(l) and they are said to "leap"

Thanks, sudokulover. I didn't know that word!

HI Ginge & Sudokulover - thanks for the help.

Went to Loire for Witsun - trying to catch up on this one - think I'm in the same boat as Orson.

Still no idea on theme - down to last 10!:

* Soak takes in low-down old prof from St. Andrews (6)
* Picked up what's needed to ring Venus? (5)
* Mr. Malik's set back One Direction or is he only joking? (4)
* Tee off at Open venue giving edge to Monty (4)
* Upright academician's off his trolley, by the sound of it (6)
* Short-legged sheep next to a speckled hen (6)
* Mature for one to exchange $100 for Australian traveller (6)
* Fired head of Tesco after supermarket is seen to be out of date (4)
* Legless lecturer's in bed, not all there (6)
* Tiny digression like this could swing by-election

1. Soak... Regent , another word for professor. - Ret, soak, with Gen, lowdown, inside.

Tee off... Roon, perhaps? It means strip', so maybe 'edge'. It could be Troon, Open venue, with the T dropped (Tee off).

Presuming Mr Malik is ZAYN then answer is prob ZANY