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Weekend Peer Review 359

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 20th September when voting opens. Voting closes at 6 pm (UK time) the same day.

For your Friday night delectation…

FISH AND CHIPS (4,3,5)

Good luck!

Weekend rules: Each entrant has up to 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 votes count)

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

Strong spinach dish can be Friday favourite (4,3,5)

Take it away! (4,3,5)

Batter my heart attack! (4,3,5)

Main ingredients of carpenter’s cuppa, I hear (4,3,5)

Chippy is slang for carpenter
Chippy tea is a phrase for fish and chips

Spanish fellow chid for not dishing up British fare (4,3,5)

‘I’m not eating that foreign muck'

Scraps and battering carried out by newspaper (4,3,5)

A classic couple (4,3,5)

Dinner ends up on the hips perhaps (4,3,5)

Rhyming slang according to what I looked up

Food for Derek William Dick and the Californian Highway Patrol (4,3,5)

DWD, the singer with Marillion, better known by his stage-name, FISH

Some will remember the old TV programme CHiPS