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Yes, that’s it, thanks for explaining patrich

I'll be going out shortly, so I'm going to take the liberty of wrapping things up a little earlier. Apologies to anyone with their finger poised to post a killer clue.

Thanks to all for taking part. A good response, I thought.

It got off to a great start with Chrise's spoonerism. Some lovely anagrams from geeker, Paul, dorrien, fieryjack and mattrom; impressive “hiddens” from fierjack, Paul, jono; charades from Paul, Patrich and tyke51; Lots of “Edwin” based twists and turns from geeker, jono, aristo, buddy and spike2; a whole range of cryptic definitions and delicious wordplay; and even a nifty homophone from tyke51.

The ones that struck me most were Chrise@1 (we’re used to seeing Chris pitch in early with his trademark anagram, but I hadn’t reckoned on a spoonerism); Paul’s nicely constructed charade @11; jono@17’s alternative letter device; the smooth surface of fieryjack@27’s anagram; buddy@32, which was my favourite of the name-based contenders; and tyke51@35, with his witty, late entry charade.

But the one that stands out most, and this week’s winner, is mattrom@13, with:

“Wind's up in Aberdeen - shelter in tent?”

It reads beautifully, with nice misdirection, and uses the sort of words you will only encounter in Crypticland and Chambers. Come on, before you started on cryptic crosswords, who knew that “tent” could be a Spanish red wine?

The prizes are something vaguely educational and encouraging to the sots amongst us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JvI392Iep8
And a bit of whimsy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqpW1SGALjA

The ingenuity of all who take part in this competition never ceases to amaze me. Again, thanks.

Congrats mattrom. Thanks for the mentions, peterm - and I don't even like Spoonerisms!

Actually, "tent" was the only part of the clue I understood! Explanation, please?

Look up "ree" in Chambers.

Congrats Mattrom, very nice, would have been my choice. The Scots shelter was new to me if not the wine. Thanks for the challenge Peterm which proved very productive and for the mentions.

Wiktionary gives an entirely different meaning in Scots of "ree" see here
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ree
I'm being dense, but I still don't get it - wouldn't it give RED NIWE?

Chris, (wind)* inside ree

Congratulations mattrom, well done!
Thanks to peterm for hosting and mention. I found this a difficult challenge, enjoyed reading the ingenious responses.

Chris - you know very well that, by convention, Chamber's is the authority for acceptable words. I think "up" works well enough as the anagrind, though, of course, many other words would do the job. Some might have been tempted to write "Wind broken in...", but that would have lead to a very different discussion.

Thanks. I'm not convinced. I use this site for anagram indicators:
https://bestforpuzzles.com/cryptic-crossword-dictionary/anagram-indicators.html
As you, see, "up" isn't included (though "upset" is). I recognise, of course, that it's not definitive, but "up" has a much more obvious meaning.