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Weekend Peer Review 186

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 the 28th of May, when voting opens. Voting closes at 8pm the same day.

This weekend’s challenge is the opposite of the thread;

LATE (4)

Have fun and good luck!

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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Half-hearted Italian milk is overdue (4)

Note: not coffee!

Recently departed(4)

Disturbing tale of the dead (4)

Dead duck oblterated (4)

Indirect anagram of teal

Those departed and others returning (4)

and others = et al

Kick Teal out of office (4)

Oz-centric - the Teals are a group who were quite successful in our last Federal election. The clue is wishful thinking by many (not shared by myself)

Former "Magician from Riga" retreats on King file. (4)


backward TAL (Mihail) followed by E

To be pedantic, in Latvian the beloved Misha is "Mihails Tāls", but the "s" is seldom appended.

Cheered naked behind (4)

eLATEd

Part of the Tesla team is behind schedule(4)