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Weekend Peer Review 224

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, February 18th, when voting opens. Voting closes at 7pm (UK time) the same day.

This weekend's challenge is:

WRANGLE (7)
or
WRANGLER (8)

Have fun, and good luck!

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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 your top 3 favourite 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 challenges is available here https://tinyurl.com/4dzss5np

Could a senior be good at maths? (8)

Disagree with take - director didn't finish (7)

W + R + ANG LE(e)

Argue with a Liberal (within limits)

White Republican fisherman becomes a cowboy (8)

Row 90° west initially (7)

right angle

Cowboy in charge of Rat Pack? (8)

Large wine that is spilled creates a row (7)

With right position cross swords (7)

Old foe of great horned owl, all aflutter, sadly hooted no more (8)

(great horned owl)* - (hooted)*
…and the Shakespearean definition “stubborn foe”