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Sorry to have possibly missed some great clues from Ginge and Mattrom; have to go offline so better vote now.

Lots of likes: JWS7, Pigale 9, SW 11, (partly...) Malcolm 12,

Second Steve 24

Vote Marty 20

If I'm right we just have Stevea and Bbm to vote and still plenty in the running

Hi, Paul. I know it's too late to affect your vote but

"sweet and sour, maybe" - definition
subtractive anagram with "dodgy" being the anagrind.
Fodder - "reconsideration catch y(our)" minus " Chinese, a"

Further to that, my take on Ginge's @5 is

"I'd react" minus "e" anagram replacing "cilia" ("hairs") in "conciliatory" ("appeasing").

JWS @7 I've only just realised I can't see how you remove the extra A and T from CONTRADICTATORY

Sorry if I'm late - power nap sprint became a marathon

Vote malcolmx #14 from sunray #15

Most definitely paul@17 (if I hadn't found a decent clue to enter, I'd have happily created a basic one to enable me to vote for it!)

Second: chrise@3
Also liked malcolm@13

@spike: a big thanks for your generosity in letting my 'rebel' clue stand.

.. and this is how it all panned out
With one vote each we have Sw 8, Chrise 3, Spike2 23 and Malcolmx 14
With two votes we have Mattrom 22 and Bbm 20
The clear winner with four votes is Paul's conversation piece

"Doctor.- can i try hash"
"No "
A worthy winner but as you know Paul the prize will have to wait until tomorrow

I wonder if you can guess

Congratulations, Paul. Thanks for hosting Fieryjack, it was kind of you to accredit me with a vote. However, I don't seem to see it anywhere!

Many thanks to Mattrom for the second vote and to Skyewalker for the mention.

Congrats paul (on my shortlist) and thanks FJ.

Thanks for the vote, sunray, and the various mentions pigale, spike2, jws, and steve6000.

Congrats Paul, super clue! Thanks fj ... and mattrom got 3 votes, not just 2, methinks.