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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 2nd October, 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-

DECAFFEINATED (13)

As I will be unable to get on site after voting is over I will award prize or in the case of a tie adjudicate on sat morning

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Fancied defeat, got innocuous drink (13)

Idea and effect confused, product harmless (13)

Cause and effect; idea to be thrashed out in the coffee shop? (13)

hey gk ! That wasn't there when I put the thinking cap on.

I'll withdraw mine - plenty time for another.

Coffee (and tea) I'd brewed, lacking zip? (13)

Anag(&lit) of "Coffee/and/tea/I'd minus zero (zip)

Exceptionally fat fiancé is indeed unstimulated (13)

About-faced, in short, lacking get-up-and-go (13)

Full of beans? Yes and no (13)

Perked down? (13)