CERTAINTY (create - e + in + ty)
Reverend Spooner mistakes Greek letter song for a natural disaster. (7)
TYPHOON (phi tune, spoonerised)
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Story starts back in the day (4, 4, 1, 4)
ONCE UPON A TIME (double meaning)
Cardamom Isle disaster affects shoe queen. (6, 6)
IMELDA MARCOS (anagram)
++++
Commanding officers fire a Ukrainian soldier.(7)
Cossack (COs sack)
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Flying object generically noted in King’s English (4)
KITE (k-IT-e)
+++++
Delicate setting of the sun out East?(7)
Tenuous (sun out + E)
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Rag cleans up sad Australian toy (3,5)
Another version:
Newspaper displays Australian toy ads (3,5)
USA TODAY (anagram of toy ads + AU)
+++++
Sing “Hello Derek!” (5)
YODEL (yo + Del)?
Yes indeed. Carry on.
Playing off YODEL
Delaware cardinal is now a Representative. (8)
DELEGATE (DE+legate)
++++
Greet everyone in tern.(5)
Egret?
Correct
Off EGRET:
When done on the internet, religious scholarship allows one to study animals in their natural environment. (8)
Modified:
When started on the internet, religious scholarship is transformed into the study animals in their natural environment. (8)
ETHOLOGY (theology anagram)
I hoid dat guy swindles 'em for chalk. (6)
GYPSUM
++++++++++
Single female felon scatters stuff messily, hears it wrong (12)
MISCONSTRUES (miss con strews)
As emerald crumbles, Quasimodo’s love emerges. (9)