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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 15th November, when voting opens - deadline 22.00 that evening.

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:

RACONTEUR (9)

Have fun.

Not so much a comedian, more a wreck on tour say. (9)

Storyteller got confused near court (9)

Fabulist disturbs our trance (9)

Colorful old geezer telling about Mae West in USO show? (9)

One befuddled with "cratur", he spins a good yarn(9)

He needs a good thread to spin! (9)

Crisp old english fruit cocktail (9)

Def = Quenton Crisp

Narrator Poe leaves contra-Europe organization (9)

Torture used on true deviant - he tells tales. (9)


(Torture = rack, on, true anagram)