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CLUELESS 598

Welcome to Clueless, our informal weekly clue setting competition. The idea is to compose a cryptic clue to a given word or phrase.

The winner of the previous week's competition both sets the word to be clued and judges the entries for the current week. The judge's decision is final and reasons may, or may not, be given at the judge's discretion. It is customary for the judge to donate a virtual prize to the winner.

Multiple entries may be submitted and new competitors are particularly welcome. Feel free to give an explanation if you think it might help.

Please note that a complete list of previously used words on Clueless, Peer Review and Weekend Peer Review is available at
https://tinyurl.com/4dzss5np

Clues should be submitted by 8:00 pm (UK time) on Wednesday September 28th.

This week`s challenge is

REPLICANT (9)

[Since chess cheating has been in the news lately...Despite bad boy ambitions, preferred to avoid anything to do with beads. 😉]

Good luck!

Humanoid plays clarinet softly (9)

Manufacture space terminals, leaving a mess? Batty! (9)

Blade Runner reference

Batty in all respects, no less? (9)

Batty doing double duty.

Funny that we must confirm we're not robots to post on this one.

After fiftieth bench press, unable to do the Robot (9)

REP 51, CAN'T

Assuming the dance is well known

Skin job maybe be reason for retirement(9)

Answer briefly: I'm unable to be more human than human. (9)

It seems there are a lot of Blade Runner fans here.

Salesman unable to function without lithium - perhaps his brain is wired very differently? (9)

(PS the ad now appearing in your post is a very helpful "Heart surgeon" informing us how to poop better...)