Edward (in French) backpedals about TV show (3, 5)
RED DWARF (Edward anagram in FR backwards)
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Encourage forest development (6)
FOSTER (forest anagram)
Football analyst had strawberry mashed (5, 8)
Terry Bradshaw
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Crystal river crossing (9)
Waterford
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I say, that dinosaur is pretty messed up without us. (6)
ORDAIN (dinosaur - us)
Country star became citified (5)
Apologies. I based my new word on DSINOSAUR instead of ORDAIN. Use this instead.
Resident in vessel (6)
Ah, so the last one was URBAN.
Dunno about
Resident in vessel (6)
Hint: Double meanings
I still got nothing after spending much of the morning sifting through synonyms. If there is a particular vessel named mate or tern, I cannot find it.
INTERN (in + tern)
Actor Sincere loses a Star Trek alien annead (6, 8)
ERNEST BORGNINE (earnest, borg+nine)
The herb irks (6)
I thought of intern but dismissed it. A nitpick reason is that resident and intern are two different things: First year out of medical school you’re an intern, after that, and until you’re done training, you’re a resident. That aside, how does “tern” relate?
Nettle
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Someone inserted a little ban on traveling here (7)
I admit it’s a stretch, but “tern” is an archaic word for “drinking vessel.”
Not a double definition clue, though. It’s a charade clue. Double definition means the same word or phrase is defined by both parts of the clue. “IN TERN” is not the same as “INTERN”.
Also, can you cite where TERN means drinking vessel? A brief googling turned (pun intended) up nothing.
OK fine. The clue sucked. We’ve moved on.
Lebanon?
That is correct.
Unknown nuts annoy tailess rodent (9)
Anonymous (annoy + mouse - e)
Associate and first rabbi enter border with astronaut (5, 4)