- - Not being a novice, he's not running in the race
- - Ambassador flees northeastern ground for Turkey?
- - Just a two-course meal could be an unacceptable idea
- - He's out of the running
- - Hopeless idea
- - Dud of an idea
- - Awful idea
- - Northeastern, he rejected bizarrely unfeasible idea
- - Really bad idea
- - Really lousy idea
- - Idea destined to fail
- - so entrant, treated before run, is being scratched?
- - Has no chance of success in a racing car with a flat battery?
- - Hopeless course, main meal or pudding suggested
- - Someone who is never going to succeed
- - Has no chance of success staying at The Post?
- - One's hopeless car with a flat battery?
- - Apt word spelled by this puzzle's deleted first letters
- - Plan that has no chance of working ... or the answer to each starred clue?
- - No chance of dessert?
- - Perhaps main course horse? That won't take off!
- - Scratched one?
- - Plan without any chance of success
- - Competitor withdrawing from race course after midday loses nothing
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