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CLUELESS 248

Welcome to Clueless, 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 decision is final and reasons may or may not be given at the judge's discretion.
It is customary for the judge to donate a virtual prize to the winner.

Multiple entries may be submitted and new competitors are particularly welcome.

This week's word to be clued is

AIRCRAFT (8)

Clues to be submitted by 6pm (UK time) on Wednesday 6th January with the winner being announced shortly after.

British flyers in arctic losing control crash their machines.

Demonstrate trickery producing what might appear as mirages (8)

Stern element switched about credit flyer (8)

flyer = definition
AFT (stern) AIR (element) swapped over around CR (credit)

Vidal Sassoon has no head for flying (8)

Cool skill, flying (8)

Inflate boat to zeppelin proportions (8)

Ego-seducing, funky car, with lots of high-flown devices (8)

Look, Art's chopper! (8)

The song-writing of UFO and Zeppelin ? (8)