Quick Cryptic 362 by Orpheus

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1. Fairly straightforward, although it took me awhile to remember MOG. I’d also wondered about Queen Anne–well, I was pretty sure she’s dead, but–so thanks for reminding me of the phrase, which I did (once) know, from a cryptic, of course. No problem with RUSTLER; indeed, with the definition I thought it too easy. 5:35.
2. Yes, I looked askance at 14ac and 4dn too, but HIND as a worker of some sort rang a faint bell. For what it’s worth, although SOED has the more specific Scottish definition that you have found, it also has simply “A servant, esp. an agricultural worker”.

   I remained baffled by Queen Anne clued as “dead queen” but since you have reminded me of the saying it makes perfect sense.

   I would have hit my 10 minute target but for those two, but as it was I needed 12.

3. 11′ 30″ with the bird my last in. Interestingly, it was 500 years after England put paid to the feudal system that Scotland got around to it. Me, I blame the Frenchies…
4. I found this quite tough but finished all correct. I missed the parsing of PILOT. Once I saw it was going to be HINDER I vaguely remembered that definition of HIND. Last in GREYLAG with favourite SATISFACTORY.
5. Thankfully quite a bit quicker than yesterday’s marathon! I even managed to parse 18d, but couldn’t parse 14ac unfortunately. Invariant
6. 3dn you were blogging this one – I, like jacckt, would have missed all the fun with the more prosaic peasant/skilled farm worker/steward. My sources of reference really should get out more. As for the rest I got tied up with 5dn so the eastern half took a while – especially as I was itching to put Dali in 20dn.
7. This one took me ages but at least I finished it, unlike yesterday, and I found it quite fiddly – I couldn’t get into the flow of it, if that makes sense.
   14a unparsed.
8. An average 7:40 for me. 4d had me puzzled too – I never knew that saying about Queen Anne. Thanks for the explanation. {Pedantry} As for swishing and rustling… they don’t sound the same to me either. I must try telling my son to stop swishing his crisp packet when I’m wanting to watch TV as he snacks and see what he says. {/Pedantry}
9. This took me quite a while and the SE corner was the final frontier.I was held up a bit because I thought 5d might be a bird. Once I got that, the rest was do-able but I had to guess at Greylag (a bird!) and Hinder. Didn’t know the Hind definition but couldn’t see what else the answer could be. David

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