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Welcome to CLUE CHAIN.

The idea is to start with a cryptic clue - set by me this week.

The first correct solver, judged by the setter, is then invited to offer their clue and so on.

Once you have solved and then set a clue you cannot answer again for the time being - see below.

15 min time limit per clue and if not solved the setter must declare the clue 'open' and everybody can play again.

If an open clue is not solved quickly the setter should offer hints until someone can solve and continue.

Game usually finishes about 6pm. If you would like to start CLUE CHAIN please volunteer next Monday.

This week's opening clue is:
A short length of unwanted straw for this flyer (9)

chaffinch

Correct, FRANCIS - your go.

I hope that some more people will join in.

Hope so
Did you say another piece of Swiss cheese ?

11 letters

Am I (are we!) looking for a reference to a specific cheese, or a more general quality - e.g. "holiness"?

definition is another piece
did you say =homophone
name if cheese figures quire prominently in answer

Name OF

Thought I'd check in and say hi Francis and Chris - but nowhere near solving!

It is a difficult one.
Think of big holes