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CLUELESS 651
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 6pm (UK time) on Wednesday the 4th of October

Today's challenge is "multiple choice":

CAST (4)
CASTS (5)
CASTED (6) PLEASE PARSE IF NOT BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS!
CASTING (7)
CASTINGS (8)

Good luck!

Future setters should note that a complete list of words used previously in Clueless, Peer Review and Weekend Peer Review is available here:
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AARGH! Don't know how I missed it bud Buddy posted CAST in PR 524! OK, please concentrate on all the derivatives or if you have any addditional original entries for CAST please enter them!

In addition you may clue for

CASE (4) plus all derivatives

Statue of Inca's tin god. (7)

Rejected diet of worms? (4)

Clue is for cast

Comes down hard on 100 years of Italian wine scandals (10)

C ASTI-GATES

Geek special

Tenor thus arranged to form Cantor set. (4)

composite anag TENOR + CAST ~ CANTOR SET

Check on a patient?(4)

Case

Oddball caught before touching second base (4)

C/A/S/E

Aesc- strange character! (4)

Anag aesc (old English letter); case as in an odd case.