As there have been no posts over the last 24 hours, we might as well wrap it up.
A difficult word to clue, mostly inviting anagrams, which is not to everyone's taste.
We liked:
Swarb @30, Paul@28/29, Paul@26, Motley@20, Jono@18, Paul@16, Geting@ 15. All clever anagrams. We also liked Geting's acrostic @12.
The shortlist came down to Jono @18 and Geting @15.
We both agreed that, on balance, Geting @15 should get the gold with:
No room for objectionable outsiders in this corrupt form of amoral nepotism I inwardly dig.
The surface managed to epitomise the essence of the definition, viz. nepotism, amorality, no outsiders - very cleverly worked. Congratulations Geting on an excellent clue.
Prizes will follow.