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Weekend Peer Review 205

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

This weekend’s challenge is a choice of:

SATIRE (6)
SATIRICAL (9)
SATIRIST (8)

or any reasonable variant (please specify the word) of the entrant's choice.

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.).

Future setters should note that a complete list of words used previously in Clueless, Peer Review and Weekend Peer Review is available here https://tinyurl.com/4dzss5np

Irony has a tiresome quality (6)

Is artist lunatic Juvenal, perhaps? (8)

Might it leave one in fits of tears? (6)

One taking off for Istanbul, initially in dire straits (8)

The truth comes back, very degrading, resulting in ridicule (6)

(v)ERITAS rev.

Surprising that VERITAS is not in my Chambers but it is in Collins.

(Vaguely topical clue...

Scottish representation without the Left? Oh, the irony! (6)

SALTIRE (Scottish flag) - L

(Down clue)

Swift to stir trouble when I sat down first? (8)

Down clue, riff on previous;

Pope perhaps got stir crazy after I sat down first (8)

(Alexander Pope, famous 18th century satirist)

Father got at by mockery (6)