Gdn cryptic

[davidas]

12 ac

Note shabby clothing for a subject of 23

POOTER must be answer but why?

Puzzled re 5dn

I walk round institute beset by ground rules.

Okay anagram of rules with "I go" round "I" for institute set in.
RELIGIOUS - but - where is the definition? Religious can mean someone who walks as in pilgrim. But that is in the clue already.

[Lie-in King]

12a Pooter (re character in "Diary of a Nobody") - 'poor' (shabby, clothing) 'te' (note)

5d has been discussed on another thread & the consensus is that there is no definition!

[davidas]

Thanks Lie-in King, I found the piece wilfully obscure/obtuse but battled to a solution. It's hard to credit the definition being absent but I suppose a paper that gives such lousy remaindered prizes for solving the thing, is capable of any dastardly deed.

[RustNeverSleeps]

Davidas
Unkind remark for the paper that provides the best on-line crossword service bar none. But this was a particularly obscure crossword which deserves some negative feedback.

[trickerg]

Shabby = poor, which is 'clothing' te, a note from the tonic sol-fah.