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CLUELESS 622 🌈

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.

Clues should be submitted by 6:00 pm (UK time) on Wednesday 15th March.

The word this week is

RAINBOW (7)

Good luck!

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Multi-coloured East End artist (7)

Newton dismissed Brownian motion as an illusion (7)

This def. of rainbow under "rainbow-chaser" in Chambers.

Historically inaccurate as Brown described the phenomenon in 1827. However, Newton had no knowledge of molecules or atoms so could have dismissed it had it been described to him. For purposes of this clue, I feel certain that this would have been the case.

Drops curtsey to symbol of the queen? (7)

Gay pride flag

Primarily red and indigo not black or white help create this effect (7)

Flag iris? (7)

Multicoloured Warrior the French sank (7)

Lest we forget!

Clip of opera in bowdlerized form, in color (7)

Did Spooner poison fish eggs? Trout, perhaps (7)

bane roe

Bomb Iran to stem wide-ranging coalition (7)

stem/bow of boat

not a policy prescription