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CLUELESS 697

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. Please give an explanation if you think it might help. Clues should be submitted by 7pm (UK time) on Wednesday August 21st.

Today's challenge is:

FRINGE (6)

Good luck!

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

Perimeter has iron hoop inside (6)

Edinburgh's outré iron Ring (6)

outré doing double duty
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Ring could conceivably be Wagner's cycle

Off beat, Foreigner rocks out badly (6)

(FOREIGNER - ORE)*. Just elected to R&R Hall of Fame, yet Devo still waits... Apologies to any fans.

This peripheral git made up as friggin' ET (6)

composite anag FRINGE+GIT

Bang on about gin cocktail, fine at first (6)

f re gin*

Shrink with a change in Temperature. The scale of it is extreme (6)

Bang iron-clad bell (6)

Marginal, strange, loveless, foreign (6)

Attempted misdirect to multiple definition

anag F(o)REIGN

Macramé finger work (6)