Guardian Prize (Again!)

[Orthrus]

What cinema promotes is of some importance (7) A_A;

Light in Greece, not entirely great (7)__L_U_A;

Big comedown to dine with faux French speaker (9) A_A______

[Captain2]

Helluva

[Captain2]

correct letter pattern for No1?

[Lie-in King]

24a Anagram - as 'cinema promotes' is of 'some importance'

[Captain2]

3 Avalanche

[Orthrus]

SOrry, no.1 is A_A___M

[fiction-factory]

Hi- it's better to use ??? rather than___ for missing letters- much easier to count the questionmarks

[Lie-in King]

9a Avalanche - "ave a lunch" (however a faux Fr. speaker would say it!)

[OHCelt]

Can someone explain the parsing of 24a, please? I still don't see how as 'cinema promotes' is of 'some importance' leads to this answer.

[Lie-in King]

The two are anagrams of each other.

[scorpiojo]

See LiK's answer @ 11.02

[donny48]

as LK says, cinema promotes is an anagram of some importance