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

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

Clues should be submitted by 6.00pm BST on Wednesday 30th March with the winner being announced shortly after.

This week's answer to be clued is:

CHECK OUT (5,3)

Investigate openly gay Eastern European on the radio. (5,3)

Heard Maxwell is absent? Take a look! (5,3)

Navratilova not there for the test (5,3)

Prince of Wales unsuitable? (5,3)

Eye the operators in the coop? (5,3)


Deliberate non-capitalisation and abbreviation of Cooperative.

Regard cute hock derisively (5,3)

Study the Cuckoo in disguise and drop nothing (5,3)

Chuck toe in the blender and settle up (5,3)

Apologies, this was supposed to appear immediately after the initial post but continually not allowed to post in my intended original format.
For those of you whio missed ros's recent comment, today is the 5th anniversary (previous numbering issues) of the first Clueless hosted by jolan with the word clued being CHOLESTEROL.
I can recommend spending a couple of hours at a time reviewing earlier editions and marvelling at the skills of earlier contributors some of whom are sadly no longer with us.