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SNEER REVIEW 492 (A punk rock edition) 🤬🧷

Welcome to our friendly 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.

Clues should be posted before 12 noon (UK time) on Friday June 11th, when voting opens. Voting closes at 9 p.m. (UK time) the same day.

Entrants should vote for their favourite clue, indicating that entrant's name and clue number. The entry with the most votes wins and its composer sets next weeks competition. The setter has the deciding vote in the event of a tie. The setter will declare the winner and award an online prize.

This week' s challenge is a choice of:

PUNK (4)
PUNK ROCK (4,4)
PUNK ROCKER (4,6)

Have fun, and good luck! 😠✌

Worthless and Rotten? (4)

Pork cut Ken transformed for Johnny Rotten, perhaps? (4,6)

Cheap hood plays joke on king. (4)

Dreadful wordplay by King! (4)

(Tim King is Encota, whose wordplay is always exquisite)

Gah! I will withdraw my 5 if mprs wants me to.

Wearer of safety pins in miserable cradle (4,6)

Perhaps one with Mohican is ‘Crazy Horse’ (4,6)

Initially pointless unloved nonentities killed music before rap (4)

One minute too slow, buddy. As always, leave it and let the voters decide.