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WEEKEND PEER REVIEW 296

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, July 6th, when voting opens. Voting closes at 6 p.m. (UK time) the same day.

This weekend’s challenge is:

TORTOISE (8)

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 the top 3 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!

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Chelonian was a tutor on the radio? (8)


(From Alice in Wonderland, I think!)

Minor tweak:

Chelonian was our tutor on the radio? (8)

He beat Barnet by the sound of it (8)

Barnet fair, rhyming slang for hair.

Mock turtle said he was our teacher (8)

Slacker condemned to resit first of O-levels (8)

toresito*

One who’s scaled a hill so it reformed solitude at last (8)

TOR (SOIT)* E

He walks slowly from a Glastonbury landmark to an island in the home counties (8)

Glastonbury TOR TO I SE

Cat shelled reptile (8)

Queen and Hoffman's cross-dresser agitated Achilles' interlocutor (8)

Film "Tootsie"
Lewis Carroll's "What the Tortoise said to Achilles"