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WEEKEND PEER REVIEW 152

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 merit of a particular clue before voting opens.

Clues should be posted before noon (UK time) on Sunday, October 2nd, when voting opens. Voting closes at 8 p.m. (UK time) the same day.

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This weekend's challenge is:

CHUCK (5)

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 three 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!

What Peppermint Patty's pitcher does, perhaps? (5)


(When Peppermint Patty plays for Charlie Brown's baseball side, she always refers to him as "Chuck".)

Friend briefly caught King Charles casually (5)

CHU(m) C K

Defn. Charles casually

Marmots abandoning woods for Canadian lake (5)

woodCHUCKs

No rest for company salesman leads to scrap (5)

C HUCK (STER)

[Reminds me of the tongue-twister, buddy - how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?]

Upmarket designer attends church in Slough (5)

CH U CK

Depose the King? (5)

Little Charlie's shy (5)

Laugh at the French retreating - chicken!

CHUCK(le)

Perpetuating the unfair stereotype regarding the valor of the French army, for which I apologize unreservedly.