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Thanks chrisE, I could see through the pince nez

Chambers gives pine as “to waste away, esp under pain or mental distress”. So I imagine that’s considered the equivalent of “decay”

Please help me in parsing / solving this cryptic clue -
"Dangerous vehicle killing five earlier (10)"

I thought of GRAVEPERIL - GP is vehicle (General Purpose - Jeep), + V + EARLIER. But it is not a single word. It is GRAVE PERIL. But the answer requires a 10 letter word. Help me in parsing the clue

Thanks mattrom for giving me the correct parsing of the clue. I could get the answer correctly now.

Please help me in parsing / solving this cryptic clue -
"News segment old? These days, recycling is done for T.R.P. (7)"

Tricky. The definition is "news segment". Two letter abbreviation meaning old, former, then two letter abbreviation for these days, used to be AD, then anagram of T.R.P

Thanks Quisling for the clean parsing. Could get the word.

Please help me in parsing / solving this cryptic clue -
"Talk about inviting family for preparing confectionery (6)"

Baking, preparing confectionery?
Kin = family, Bag = reverse (about) of Gab, talk. Ba kin g.

Thanks malone. I was trying to solve using confectionery as definition instead of preparing confectionery!