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Originally Posted by Terrence Chant

Hi H

You need an older Russ....

Not many famous social networks out there, so a little bird tells me

Lol
Conway Twitty

(Russ) Conway
Twitter - queen(er) + First 'you'(y) = Twitty

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New clue
Shimmy and lose energy with Irish club.(7)

[Terrence Chant]

Shakira?

[Hotelier]

Originally Posted by Terrence Chant

Shakira?

Correct T!

[Terrence Chant]

Grit salt premier

(4,6)

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Rock something?...(rock salt is used for gritting).
cant find any solo acts that fit that though...

[Terrence Chant]

Afraid Not H....not that sort of grit

There is one synonym and one instruction in the clue

[Hotelier]

still stumped....I must be going senile in my old age. Dont even know what the synonym and instruction are..lol.

Wild Guess....Maxi Priest ..only because it has the right number of letters and is a bit like 'Moxie' which is a synonym of 'Grit' ....lol

[Terrence Chant]

A touch obscure maybe, she only had one top 20 hit in 1983......so we'll make the clue easier...

Testimony strengths

[Hotelier]

Can only think of Mari Wilson (Wilson premier), but her top twenty hit was 1982.

[Terrence Chant]

Hint: you need this to give up smoking. That gives you all the letters bar the last one, which is a compass point

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Will Powers.

at last!


Ok new clue
It's said a TV detective needs the shrimp.
(6,4)

[Terrence Chant]

Best I've come up with, which is almost definitely wrong, is Robert Cray. Robert Powell was one of the Detectives with Jasper Carrott on tv and cray(fish) is a synonym of shrimp, but that wouldn't explain the need for the homophone indicator ('it's said').

Also not sure how relevant the 'needs' is. Might be there just to bridge the clue, but it's perhaps more likely a synonym is required.

Finally, the shrimp might not mean seafood but a dimunitive person.

Is there a singer called Mustafa Welk?

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Originally Posted by Terrence Chant

Best I've come up with, which is almost definitely wrong, is Robert Cray. Robert Powell was one of the Detectives with Jasper Carrott on tv and cray(fish) is a synonym of shrimp, but that wouldn't explain the need for the homophone indicator ('it's said').

Also not sure how relevant the 'needs' is. Might be there just to bridge the clue, but it's perhaps more likely a synonym is required.

Finally, the shrimp might not mean seafood but a dimunitive person.

Is there a singer called Mustafa Welk?

Hint. Male act.

'The Shrimp' is a (sortof) eponymous reference.

[Terrence Chant]

I see you highlighted 'needs' H....I assume that was for a reason?!

Didn't really understand the shrimp / eponymous reference hint either I'm afraid.

On a scale of 1-10, how likely am I to have heard of him?

[Hotelier]

Originally Posted by Terrence Chant

I see you highlighted 'needs' H....I assume that was for a reason?!

Didn't really understand the shrimp / eponymous reference hint either I'm afraid.

On a scale of 1-10, how likely am I to have heard of him?

Probably 8 or above. (10 if you are very familiar with the genre)
Google "the shrimp" (include 'the'). (Eponymous might be slightly inaccurate, ie it's a similar word to the person in questions name)

The actor who played the TV Detective possibly followed the herd a bit.
Sorry I was going to say 'Needs' is as you thought (just a clue bridge)..highlighted it but forgot to say

[Terrence Chant]

Think I've finally got there at last

Wycliffe is the TV detective = Wyclef (it's said, homophone)

Thanks to the google tip.....the Shrimp is Jean Shrimpton (didn't know that!)....

Hence Wyclef Jean

(and actor Jack Shepherd played Wycliffe, hence followed the herd lol)

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Yeah!. (showing my age..lol)

[Terrence Chant]

Sail off feeling depressed, we hear

(4,4)

[Hotelier]

Nick Lowe?
Lisa Loeb? this one seems to fit more....Lisa anagram(off) of sail . Feeling depressed might be Loe..but cant make the B fit. ahh..unless its a cunning reference to hearing(we hear) as in ear 'Lobe'.

[Terrence Chant]

It is Lisa Loeb H, well done

Depressed was simply (of a) 'low ebb' which sounds like 'lo eb'

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A comic in bunkers it's said.
(The, 5, 7)

[Terrence Chant]

The Dandy Warhols....didn't know that was a solo artist

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Oh Yeah..lol, had to happen

Ok.

A pork chop with blemished skin.
(7,7)

[Terrence Chant]

Pigmeat Markham

Called my petrol station

(8,6)