Crossword Help Forum
Forum Rules

Weekend Peer Review 89 🌎 ☄️

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.

Clues should be posted before noon (UK time) on Sunday, July 18th, when voting opens. Voting closes at 8 p.m. (UK time) the same day.
The winner of this week's competition will be the host for the following weekend. He or she may vary the rules or the voting system.

This weekend's challenge is:

ASTEROID (8)

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 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 place votes, etc).

Have fun and good luck!

Radio set tuned to heavenly body (8)

Starfish found on old minor planet (8)

A medication that could kill us all? (8)

A body-builder called Eros? (8)

Old identification of flower first found on space rock. (8)

Supply Dora's tie and belt (8)

Fancy a rest, with the end of painful condition going around your anus, say (8)

At work tomorrow, so, in case it needs parsing....


Fancy a rest - aster
(haemorrh)oid
orbiting Uranus

I maybe factually incorrect. There are asteroids that 'co-orbit' the Sun with Uranus.

Am I to be given some latitude with my clue?