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Our weekly competition to compose a cryptic clue to be judged by your fellow contestants.

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

Feel free to explain your clue if you think it will help but please refrain from commenting on entries until voting has begun.

Entrants should 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 clue by 1 pm on Friday 25th September, when voting opens. Voting closes at 10 pm.

The setter has a deciding vote in the event of a tie and may change the rules if necessary.

The setter will declare the winner and award an online prize.

The answer to be clued is-

OFFICIALDOM (11)

Have fun.

Red tape good for getting acid off limo? Doubtful (11)

Realm where civil servant supplants monarch? (11)

Entangled, if mad, coil of red tape, perhaps. (11)



(Sorry I had to use the same definition, GK!)

Chap's mostly jolly but is he for real? (11)

Do I claim off irritable jobsworth? (11)

I doff cap (comical angle) to the Establishment (11)

Hi ixion
Could you explain yours for me, please?

Hi chrise, in case ixion misses your request.

It's an anagram of I doff (c)omical, cap removing the first letter. Anagrind: angle. The surface being &lit ish.

Thanks ginge