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Hello and welcome to Clueless 364, 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 20h.00 UK time on Wednesday 21st March.

This week’s word to be clued is:

OPERATIONS (10)

Please parse your clues - Thanks in advance.

Have a great time and Good Luck!

Surgical procedures that rebuild nose top to allow fresh air in (10)

Anagram of nose top and air,

Treatment? I hope rations come into it! (10)

Tweak for purists!

Treatment? Hope rations come into it! (10)

Compose operas into military exercises (10)

Charges choices about age (10)

Rodent in cooked pie soon to become biopsies?




Anagram of PIE + SOON around RAT

Sorry, forgot the parsing in #5 & #6:

#5 - Anagram of OPERAS + INTO

#6 - ERA (age) inside OPTIONS (choices)

No doing too well this morning! #7 should of course be:

Rodent in cooked pie soon to become biopsies? (10)

Benefits (stock earned) run average with ventures (10)

benefits: OPTIONS
stock: hold within
earned run average: ERA (baseball pitching statistic- and yes, it's in Chambers!)
ventures: DEF