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Welcome to 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, or to ask another poster to explain theirs.

Entrants should vote for their favourite clue - please include the post number and please also refrain from commenting on entries until voting has finished. The entry with the most votes wins and its composer sets next week's competition.

Please post your clue by 1:00pm on Friday 22nd January when voting opens. Voting closes at 9:00 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.

This week's word to be clued is:

Stalemate (9)

Have fun!

We've had this one before Peter!
#PR 20

Thanks rossim. Apologies for the delay but I was out this morning and have only just seen this.

The new answer to be clued is:

Board game (5,4)

I remembered it too, rossim (my phone keeps changing your name to Rossini). Must have been when the shadowy peterm went missing- hopped up in the casbah no doubt.

A level playing field? (5,4)

Clue maybe played with by Aristophanes before producing a winner ! (5,4)

For what it's worth "stalemate" was also Clueless 18.

@ aristo: no home field advantage this time but still the bookies" favourites

Clue: May be constricting agent, sending back online publication to doctor (5,4)

Yikes. Sorry about that, ginge. Almost simultaneous.

I'm embarrassed to say, aristo, that I did the same thing last time I was administering PR. To make matters worse, I'm pretty sure it was my own word that I had repeated. I knew I would be out this morning so I had prepared the blurb for 'board game'. For some unfathomable reason I changed it at the last moment. The casbah must be taking its toll.

ginge: But they're not used to the high altitude, and they may be even higher, since grass is legal in Denver.