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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. Newcomers are welcome.

Please parse your clue if you feel it is necessary.

Everybody who enters may vote for their favourite clue - please include the post number.

The entry with the most votes wins and its composer will set next week's competition.

Please post your clues by 1pm Friday 14th April, when voting opens - deadline 10 pm that evening.

The setter has a deciding vote in the event of a tie and may change the rules if necessary.
It is customary for the setter to award an online prize when declaring the winner.

The answer to be clued this week is:

STILT HEDGE (5,5)

Have fun and good luck!

Cultivated land overgrown with Carex becomes a garden feature (5,5)

TILTH in SEDGE

Break for the border? (5,5)

Sh! Lean inside! Border is a decorative one. (5,5)

SH around TILT, EDGE

Finishing early, yet U2's guitarist heartlessly creates a natural screen (5,5)

STIL(L) THE (E)DGE

Extended leg cover for garden work? (5,5)

A block you wont find on a cheese stall! (5,5)

High hurdle? (5,5)

Stiff and pompous about hair's first return, say - a thick head of growth (5,5)

Settled with early pruning of high trained border (5,5)

Def: high trained border
Anagrind: trained (serving two roles)
Fodder: settled + (h)igh (high also doubly used)