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WEEKEND PEER REVIEW 18

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

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

Feel free to explain your clue if you think it will help, or ask another setter to parse their clue.

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

Please post your clues by UTC/GMT 13:00, Sunday, September 28, when voting opens. Voting deadline – 20:00

As there are international participants, here is a link to check the time:
http://time.is/UTC

The entry with the most votes wins and its composer hosts the next week's competition.
The host has a deciding vote in the event of a tie and may change the rules if necessary.

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

The solution to be clued this weekend is SECOND (6)

Have fun!

Back the runner-up?

Timely support (6)

Stowaway sends cow to pirate sub (6)

Silver badged deputy (6)

Sorry, my post # 2 should, of course, read

Back the runner-up (6)

Next to none, but no number assigned (6)

Next [&lit]

Pig's whisper, "It's short and dry on the first date ... (6)

... and never mind the greengrocer's before this." (6)

computer glitch - this machine is soon to shuffle off its mortal coil.

Sorry about that. Part 2 should have read:

... and never mind the greengrocer's before 'this and that'." (6)

9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom? (6)


(Sorry - someone had to!)