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Weekend Peer Review 229

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, March 24th when voting opens. Voting closes at 7pm (UK time) the same day.

This weekend's challenge is:

SALLY (5)

Have fun, and good luck!

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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).

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Long tall mustang aunt sneaking through the alley (5)

quadruple defn, UK GK + 3 x music allusion (Little Richard, Wilson Pickett et al., Robert Palmer)

Tweak to 2: "...sneakin' through the alley (5)"

A pull for changes? (5)

A sally is part of a bell rope, used to ring "changes" (sequences of bells in a strict but varying order - see Dorothy L. Sayers "The nine tailors"!)

Incursion by devious gangster on the inside (5)

Frolic, with aunt potentially fair game (5)

Boldly go forth ... in universal lycra (5)

Second partner for venture (5)

Attack, for example, across the lines (5)

Attack unfortunately destroying 90% of heart (5)

SADLY-->SALLY (D=500, L=50)