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Weekend Peer Review 165

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, January 1st, when voting opens. Voting closes at 8 p.m. (UK time) the same day.

This weekend's challenge is

HOLY GRAIL (4,5)

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 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).

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Have fun and good luck!

Glory, hail all around! Monty Python found it! (4,5)

Hotly pursued green bird sits on pruned bush (4,5)

Cracking girl ahoy! Large group after this prize… (4,5)

Much sought-after dish sounds damaged (4,5)

Spooner's snarly praise for a religious icon (4,5)

Sounds like 'growly hail' (with a Chips Rafferty accent, perhaps)

The perfect clue for this challenge? (4,5)

This cup represents the extremes of your ideal goal hero - a revolutionary (4,5)

(YR + IL + GL + HO + A) *

A tribute to Pele, who died a few days ago. Winner of the World Cup. Taking a liberty with the final extreme - A plus an adjacent space 🤔

Trouble chasing pious old king's lost platter (4,5)

(In the unlikely event that anyone's struggling to parse 3 and is short of time..)

HOL(L)Y G RAIL