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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 18:00 BST on Wednesday, 10th July, with the winner to be announced shortly after.

The answer to be clued is:

INSULAR (7)

Have fun.

Quake ruins LA, cut off (7)

(Bit obvious but couldn’t resist)


“Lack of direction” seen in a slur about the Trump “administration”? (7)

Petty put-down almost touched a King (7)

(Re my 3: You may not be aware of the scandal that unfolded today about the British ambassador’s leaked private email about the topic....
BTW the second set of apostrophes is purely gratuitous)

I'm aware of it.

Apologies. Grandma/eggs

Urinals could be circumscribed (7)

Isolated a source of radioactivity after short attack (7)

Is lunar module detached? (7)