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Thank you, Madwoman. I had just got there myself!! Much appreciated.
Annie

How on earth does 10D lead to Spoonfeed?
Please also parse 27 dollar

SPOONFEED plumbs new depths of contrivedness.

“Baby” is the definition, but used as a verb.

The priest who messed up speaking is SPOONER. “Briefly” indicates the last letter is removed (yet another bloody deletion). Iron is FE (the chemical symbol for the element), and Duke is just D.

Thus: SPOONE(R) FE D.

Meh.

DOLLAR = buck

Excessive dose = OD (a recognised abbreviation for OVERDOSE.

Becoming slower = RALL (short for RALLENTANDO, a musical term for slowing down).

The whole thing is then reversed (turning up, this being a down clue).