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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 and reasons may or may not be given at the judge's discretion.
It is customary for the judge to award a virtual prize to the winner.

Multiple entries may be submitted and new competitors are particularly welcome!

Clues should be submitted by 6:00 pm BST on Wednesday 3rd of May with the winner to be announced shortly after.

This week's answer to be clued is

GREEN FINGERS (5,7)

Have fun and please parse your clue unless it is blindingly obvious.

Musical fringe genres show the success of grassroots culture (5,7)

Taking a day off, vigorous gardening frees me (5,7)

Free ginseng recipe brought out natural horticultural ability (5,7)

Growing talent did for departure from serving up fried eggs for dinner (5,7)

"Growing talent" - definition
"serving up" - anagrind
Fodder - "fried eggs for dinner" minus "did for"

A place for putting toys with great skill in bed? (5,7)

Gardener Germaine's holding cardinals object in bow (5,7)


GREERS (germaine's) around EN (cardinals) + FING (object in Bow)

Ginger fern 'es cultivated ~ "es good at it? (5 7)

Releasing redheads, Spooner's growing skill (5, 7)

Ready to upchuck quantity of booze, getting knack of raising bag (5,7)