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WEEKEND PEER REVIEW 218

Welcome to our weekend competition to compose a cryptic clue to be judged by your fellow contestants. You may enter as many clues as you like, and everyone is welcome, particularly new entrants. Feel free to explain your clue. if you think it will help, or to ask another entrant to parse their clue. However, please don't comment on the clues before voting closes.

Clues should be posted before noon (UK time) on Sunday, January 7th, when voting opens. Voting closes at 8 p.m. (UK time) the same day.

This weekend's challenge is:

VIOLA (5)

Weekend rules: Each entrant has six votes to allocate across any of one to six clues (no fractional votes allowed). For example, the allocation might be 3/2/1 for your top 3 favourite clues, and many other allocations are possible. In the event of a tie, the number of first place votes will be taken into consideration (if those are equal, 2nd place votes, etc).

Have fun and good luck!

Future setters should note that a complete list of previously used words on Clueless, Peer Review and Weekend Peer Review is available here https://tinyurl.com/4dzss5np

Shipwrecked Shakesperian is a big fiddle (5)

Voilà - a viol retuned (5)

feel free to use voila or viol in your clue!

To look back, employing cover-ups, is a fiddle (5)

( employing =via, VI OL A)

A pillow of pasta but no raft for transvestite marooned on 12th night (5)

Ra - viola

Initially Victoria is off like Albert's instrument (5)

Smitten, Olivia gives up independence for "him" (5)

The Cliff Notes for 12th Night may be needed

Flower plucked for arrangement (5)

Look back through borders for flower (5)

*…and here’s a bonus challenge!*

Create an anagram from…

“If music be the food of love, play on”