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Nasty moment when son at first sees imaginary Frenchman right before nurse comes back (4,4)

S/S/I/M/R/A/EN rev

I'll get my coat.

RuPaul, for one, needs a close shave! (4,4)

If that doesn't translate, substitute Dame Edna

Close shave for the girl next door? (4,4)

G-man packing weapon, one that can scare the hell out of you (4,4)

G-man: NESS
weapon: ARM
one: I
that can scare the hell out of you: def

Thanks to the “espiègle dectet” who entered this week’s challenge. A great selection of clues on display, which were, as always, very difficult to choose between.

One hidden from Buddy cutting four words which is always good.

Pleasantly surprised that Mattrom found a Spoonerism, as I thought about it, but “nisse” never occurred to me.

A very nice compound anagram from Geeker. Fyi, unusually, for the midweek cryptics, I noticed one in the FT today.

Some nice interpretations of the female “miss”. I especially liked Chris’s “miserly young lady” and Dorrien’s “girl next door”.

Anagrams yielded the single word “seminars” from Buddy, “rain mess” from Geeker, Paul’s “NS armies”, PaulH’s “marines s”. Baccy’s “submarine” was crafty if little too indirect for me.

Of the charade/constructions I liked Mattrom’s Aramis, Buddy’s athletics fixture and Aristo’s G-Man.

However, I’ve decided to go with the simple and elegant this week.

Bronze goes to Chris@3, Silver to Darla@18…

…and by a whisker the winner is Dorrien@23 with…

Close shave for the girl next door? (4,4)

Congratulations Dorrien, here is the prize (some day we may run out of MP clips, but that day is not today)…

https://youtu.be/zYV-qYeWPkk?

Cheers all
Ttfn!

Well done, dorrien, very neat, and thanks, jono.

paul @11

Timeline on Monday evening:
2308 - 'I am about to enter Clueless with 'Close encounter for armies moving in opposite directions'(4, 4). I check for similar ideas already entered - all ok.
2309 Partner asks me to check next day's weather forecast. Switch websites then return to Clueless.
2311 Final check for pre-emptive clues. GRR! There it is, paul@11, timed at 2310. Guess others have had similar experiences.

Peer Review following, but I am required to go for a walk first.

Well done Dorrien and well overdue!
Cheers jon, Tricky.
Paul - yep guess that must be a not - infrequent experience. I've had the same.

Great Pauls think alike!

Very well done Dorrien; and great review jono.

Some absolute crackers submitted this week.

PS bigmarty's clue for SCROOGE was more than a match for Sunday's Everyman offering, I thought.

Congrats Paul - lovely clue. Thanks for the challenge, jono, the detailed analysis, and the bronze medal!