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Thanks, everyone. We ended up with 19 valid clues from 12 setters.

Many excellent entries and I’m glad I wasn't required to choose.

The final position is that darla@4, Paul@6 and dorrien@24 each got one vote; aristo@23 got 2 votes; the runner-up with 3 votes is jono@16; and the winner with 4 votes is amej@9, with his witty, tongue-twisterish anagram:

Permit pickled pastors to start partying

Well done, amej. Yours was among my favourites.

And the prize is a bit of twaddle with a loose passport connection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeGjQHwpzJA

Thanks to all for taking part.

Cheers.

Very well done Amej! Cheers Peterm - I enjoyed the clip.

Congrats amej (is this your first win?) and thanks peterm.

Now it is resolved, I can expand on my comment on aristo's clue (I think I've posted this before, but perhaps not all of you have seen it).

A long time ago, soon after I had started doing crosswords, I was doing an Observer Everyman. I had an anagram:

UP TO HIS ???? IN IT

The letters I had left were A R S and E. I thought "Surely not in the Observer?"




It turned out to be EARS...

Admirable achievement Amej. Thanks for hosting Peterm and for the mention Jono

Well done, Amej. Thanks, Peterm.

@Aristo - I'm hono(u)red

Nice one, amej! Thanks for hosting, peterm, for the votes, chrise and spike, and for the likes, geting and tyke.

I always say that nobody else does kitsch like the Germans. I mentioned this to one of my daughters before her first trip there, and she later told me she’d gone to a restaurant where the centerpiece at each table was a spray of big plastic bugs in primary colors, on springy stems in a vase. I could so clearly picture it.

Nice one Amej! Cheers Peter.

Congrats, amej. A fun clue. Thanks to peter for hosting and buddy for the vote.

Chris: 😆

Thanks Peterm for hosting and thanks all for the votes!!

Congrats Amej, I liked the clue and the alliteration! Many thanks Peter.