Clue Chain 10

[Canary42]

Starting Clue Chain 10 - all welcome 😊

The idea of the game is that the setter poses an original home-made clue which everybody is invited to solve.  The poster who solves the clue first (hopefully identified by the setter) is then invited to post their own original clue, easy or cryptic.  If nobody has answered the clue within 30 minutes, the setter should post a further hint and so on until the clue is solved.

The first clue is from Hazlinny as follows :-

 

Sounds a bother when I leave it shortly to head off to  fragments of concrete.  (7)

 

 

[Hazlinny]

? The Eagles

[johnny.5]

The eagles is correct

anag she let age

and they sang atke it easy 

[Hazlinny]

Thanks 😊

Shades of colour resemble a mixture of northern digits.  (5)

[Canary42]

tones ?

[Hazlinny]

Yes 😊           toes N anagram

[Canary42]

Thanks 

Did he give Napoleon the boot ? (10)

[Canary42]

1st hint (alternative clue)

About to cry, upturns heavy footwear (10)

 

[Patsy33]

Wellington

[Canary42]

Yes Patsy well done 😉

Explanation:

1st clue: Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon, wellington is a boot

2nd clue; About to cry = welling up, up turns heavy so up becomes ton, hence welling ton. Wellington is footwear.

[Patsy33]

Thanks 😀

Almost miss head which is bad behavior. (8)

[Canary42]

Time for a hint methinks.

[Patsy33]

Another name for Head will give you most of the latter word..

[dustypuss]

? 💀

[Patsy33]

Bad behavior is the definition or  Naughtness..

[Hazlinny]

? Mischief

[Patsy33]

Yes, Haz!

Almost Mis(s) & Head = Chief Mischief

[Hazlinny]

Thanks Patsy 😊

Type of energy starts in a short month with nothing to drink up backwards.  (7)

 

[Canary42]

octopus ?

[Hazlinny]

Yes Canary 😊   ......... Oct o pus (sup)

[Canary42]

IT fails as a ritual in this country ? (9)