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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 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 8pm BST on Wednesday, 27th of September, with the winner to be announced shortly after.

Slight change in submitting time, due to the hour's difference;

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, COULD YOU PARSE YOUR CLUES? Thanks

CROSSROAD (9)

Have fun.

Only one motel at this junction? (9)

"Crossroads" was a famously awful soap opera set in a motel of that name.

Car's doors damaged at the junction (9)

Anagram ("damaged") "cars doors"

Where things may come to a crunch? (9)

"Crunch" could be a collision or a crucial point (slang)

(Sorry - a bit long-winded)

Could be a sideline Banks novel in which the West are driven out by Nazis (9)

"Could be a sideline" - definition
(Iain) "Banks novel" - (The) CROW ROAD
Replace "the West" (W) with "Nazis" (SS)

Anguished cry for help in abandoned orchard not heard at first on bypath (9)

"Anguished cry for help" SOS => OSS
"abandoned" - anagrind
Fodder- ORC(H)ARD, I.e. remove H ("heard at first")
"bypath" - definition

One of broads meeting places (10)

Basically b-roads

Car's door's damaged at junction (9)

(Anagram )

Oops - sorry Chris - wasn't checking my reversing mirror. Withdrawn!

I'll take it as a compliment, paul! I think your second inverted comma makes yours slightly more elegant than mine :)