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PEER REVIEW 121

PEDANTS REVOLT-
Since last weeks should have been 120, this weeks is 121!

A competition to compose the best cryptic clue, judged by your fellow contestants.

You may enter as many clues as you like and everybody is welcome to have a go.

Please feel free to explain your clue if you think it will help.

Everybody who enters may vote for their favourite clue - please include the post number.

The entry with the most votes wins and its composer sets next week's competition.

Please post your clues by 1pm tomorrow, Friday 18th April, when voting opens - deadline 20.00 that evening. If you're from a distant time zone, I don't mind if you vote a little early if that helps .

The setter has a deciding vote in the event of a tie and may change the rules if necessary.

It is customary for the setter to award an online prize when declaring the winner.

The answer to be clued this week is:

MAELSTROM (9)

Have fun.

nobody tried yet? Here goes, then:
Smart mole causes Dutch chaos (9)

Lame storm somehow wrecks havoc in the main! (9)

Lacking ideas, melodramatises creating
pandemonium (9)

"Meals on wheels" serving up death to old people, a confusing and frightening situation(9)

[Relies on being a down clue, mort(death to old people) after anag of meals]

Pandemonium follows Mother according to Spooner

Whirlpool realm most altered? (9)

Lost me arm carelessly in a whirlpool. (9)

The smart mole changed the life of the head greenkeeper causing chaos on the course. (9)

Norse mariners' problem - Charybdis rather than Scylla. (9)