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Sorry Aristo I can't help it's a job for Ginge!!!!!!
Check Amej 5, I think he is missing an "s", I am only mentioning it because of my faux pas recently. It will give him some time to amend it,

Thanks, fiery. Yes, he perhaps intended a plural.

Might the errant S have made its way into Chris’s clue ?

Thanks jono!

Fife spectacles could be illusory (7,7)

Or:

Fife's spectacle could be illusory (7,7)

I’m keeping schtum - I live in fear of winning clueless, yet feel compelled to enter!

Orderly CIA spec felt almost entirely safe to the British Animators, who were the precursors of this, with pencil and paper! (7,7)

Should read small a for animators (lest I confuse).

Spice café’s left cunning stunts (7,7)

Tweak - thanks Fieryjack!

Ah to hell with it - I’ll live dangerously.

The last one is a reference to the great Animal Farm film of 1954 [which nearly bankrupt the CIA]

And before animation there were trompe l'oeil painters.

The other one is a simple F(rench) X (kiss).