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[Wil's post: Just in case buddy doesn't know - no idea why I do! - all the names are characters in Mario games.]

There being no new entries today, let's wrap this up:

With all due respect to everyone else's efforts, the winner this week was so good I'm willing to call it one of the best clues I've ever seen. It works on so many levels. For those not steeped in Mario lore, Bowser is Mario's chief nemesis, and Princess Peach is his love interest/damsel in distress (originally named Princess Toadstool, fortunately for this clue she was renamed). So the surface is actually a reasonable description of the gameplay. And yes, peaches and plums are very closely related, as members of the genus Prunus. And of course Mario and Luigi are plumbers. Both the surface and the cryptic grammar are impeccable. Brilliant, wil@40:

Bowser’s beginning to go after Peach’s relative - what do Mario and Luigi do? (5)

Prizes

Hard to find much that doesn't involve unclogging a U-trap

Plumb the depths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1cC2yNoa8g
Plumb loco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWpASN4dQHg
Plumb catchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTa6Xbzfq1U

Not thematic but RIP to an all-time great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUUhDoCx8zc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqWQzOzK3kw

Congrats wil - I thought it might be a winner, but there were several other good ones too. (I assume you didn't need my explanation, buddy!)
Thanks buddy.

Stupendous Wil - straight round the bend and left us in its wake! Thanks Buddy.

Congrats Wil, very neat indeed.
I needed the explanation, Chris!
Thanks to Buddy.
PR to follow…

Congrats will, have to admit all the mario reference were over my head. Thanks buddy for hosting

Just popping in to offer my congratulations to Wil and say that I too thought it was a superb clue; refreshingly modern and different

Well done wil and thanks buddy.

Mario Bros is arguably the most successful game of all time (a movie based on the game grossed over $1.3 billion two years ago) so it is perfectly OK to assume some GK about it, I think. If not, easily googled.

Well done Wil - cheers Buddy!