Bad Lot

[Purplebird]

Would some kind person please give me some extra clues for the following:-

30. Best friend. Dan. shouts "Be prepared!" (6,5)
38. ... but his second mate got him into trouble (8)
41. Mario's title guaranteed a religious education. (3,9)

PB.

[Famous5]

30 Man's best friend is...this one is a cartoon character called Fred, made up as an anagram in the clue

38 Here mate is a marriage partner, and you'd be in trouble if you had a second before disposing of the first!

41 Mario is an Italian author who wrote about certain Sicilians, from which 3 films were made

How's that?

[Goofy]

with clues like that you might as well give the answer famours5!

[quizbag]

Thank you famous5. It gives us something to work with.

[Purplebird]

Ringraziamento F5.

PB.