Mephisto N0 3120

[Matakari]

Stuck on the following and would like some answers/hints with parsing, please ! Thanks in advance!
DOWN: 2 Rob avoiding strengthening worshipper (5 ):ORAN?
(ORANS OR ORANT? )
3 What gets you back on poetry – good sense? ( 11, two wrds ):REVE?SE-EAR
( REVERSE GEAR? )
8 Foreign waste in ports (7 ): TAW?IE?
9 Spiteful women beat Duke ‘arshly – sine qua non for BS? (11 two wrds ): CAT?TA?DARD
11 sets about hostel blokes in excesses in old play ( 9 ): CLO?ME?TS
16 Spread round colonel’s covert command in trees (8 ):?AR?OSAS
23 Mademoiselle’s match is holier-than-thou about crafty conduct ( 5 ) : ?PARTI
( PARTI? )

[klazomaniac]

9 Cat Standard (Category Standard)
BS = British Standards

spiteful women = Cats
beat = Tan
Duke = D
arshly = arh (Harshly /Hard)

[Captain2]

16 Marg-o-sas

[Mamyalynne]

8 Tawnies

types of Port, anag,waste in

[Bordeaux]

Hello I would like to ask has the sunday times gone back
To prize crosswords
Thanks

[Mamyalynne]

11 Cloyments

[roslyn251254]

bordeaux - times never stopped giving puzzles

[Neveracrossword]

The Sunday Times didn't stop the prize puzzles, but the Sunday Telegraph did. The latter have prizes again, online book tokens (I think).

[Mamyalynne]

23 Pi (pious) round Art

[Mamyalynne]

3 Yes

Re (on) Verse G(ood) Ear (sense)

[Matakari]

Thanks, all! Just 2 now, is it ORANS or ORANT?

[klazomaniac]

Orant
Roborant minus Rob

[Matakari]

Thank you very much, Klazomaniac!