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Weekend Peer Review 119

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, February 13th, when voting opens. Voting closes at 9 p.m. (UK time) the same day.

This weekend's challenge PAYS homage to my mother tongue. You'll be writing clues for either of these words that (likely) have their origin in the Dutch language.


FROLIC (6)
ICEBERG (7)
RUCKSACK (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!

Water bird - if 101 come back it could be a hazard to shipping (7)

GREBE CI backwards

Trucks acknowledge carrier inside (8)

Skip afro, lice included! (6)

just realised that the "pays" in "pays homage" in my intro was all-caps'd. excuse my sloppy typing.

Case brought after fight leads to dismissal (8)

Russia imports 100 kilos near Alaska: cocaine hidden in backpack (8)

RU(C K)S + A(C)K. It's a very large backpack.

A lettuce maybe found off the shelf(7)

Given chopped colliflower, O, we'll jump for joy! (6)

Colliflower is an archaic spelling of cauliflower; anagrams to O WELL FROLIC

Murder in the Alps? Couldn't care less! (7)