Brave hit-and-miss comedy spurned Sydney beach (8)

I believe the answer is:

yeomanly

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'spurned sydney beach' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs occasionally mean the same thing.

'brave hit-and-miss comedy' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'brave' could be 'manly' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'manly' is found in the answer.
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