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Weekend Peer Review 234

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, April 28th when voting opens. Voting closes at 7pm (UK time) the same day.

This weekend's challenge is:

SPINSTER (8)

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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

Uncoupled partnerships playing without harp (8)

Unwed girl gets pins Terry hid (8)

Bidders taken in by priest playing Old Maid (8)


NS in PRIEST*

Tabby cat, leaning to the left, feeling a bit poorly, said to be missing an eye (8)

s (p) inster

That didn’t work, I used an i in square brackets!

s p in(i)ster

Second number stumped Queen's old maid (8)

S PIN St ER

Discovert type found at the loom (8)

dd

Nun surpressed the pressure of a number of years without a man (8)

SISTER around P N

Fitful rest after having a whirl with an old maid (8)

STER* after SPIN