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Forum Rules

Welcome to Clueless, our informal weekly clue-setting competition.

The idea is to compose a cryptic clue to a given word or phrase.

The winner of the previous week’s competition both sets the word to be clued and judges the entries for the current week.

The judge’s decision is final; reasons may or may not be given at the judge’s discretion. It is customary for the judge to donate a virtual prize to the winner.

To be fair to others, please do not make any comments on entries until after the winner has been declared. Multiple entries may be submitted and new competitors are particularly welcome!

This week’s word is VOODOO (6)

Please parse your clue if you think a sweaty sock might need some assistance in understanding it.

Clues to be submitted by 6pm Wednesday (22nd July) with the winner being announced shortly after.

Have fun and good luck!

I wonder if anyone can prove their powers of clairvoyancy/get lucky and guess the prize

Louisianans believe this might soundly suffice for you, (in French, of course, though in reverse order!) (6)


"Do vous", reversed to give VOUS DO

Four ducks with STD could put a spell on you (6)

Spell abracadabra! (6)

Begin vacation on Orkney, destination of outstanding charm (6)

Charming child of famous guitarist (6)

Cult has gone over videos to rigorously extract it's revenge (6)

...how I long for an edit function. Still it's a quite a mistake

Cult has gone over videos to extract its revenge (6)

Five unplaced runs including a disqualification is a bad spell. (6)

Very old circle has party with blood - type of ritual (6)