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Welcome to our friendly competition to compose a cryptic clue to be judged by your fellow contestants.

You may enter as many clues as you like. 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 merit of a particular clue before voting opens. Clues should be posted before 12 noon (UK time) on Friday August 30th, when voting opens. Voting closes at 8 pm (UK time) the same day.

Entrants should vote for their favorite clue, indicating that entrant's name and clue number. The entry with the most votes wins and its composer sets next week's competition. The setter has the deciding vote in the event of a tie. The setter will declare the winner and award an online prize.

This week's challenge:

EPISODE (7)

Have fun and good luck!

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Incident in which seeds scattered on a surface, we hear (7)

EPI - surface (as in epicentre, epidermis etc.)
SODE - sounds like SOWED

I don ugly speedo for an event (7)

Dipsomaniac into drugs? It's just a phase (7)

E(DIPSO)*E

Deviously espied boxing ring bout (7)

Passage of unfinished nonsense verse penned by Cummings perhaps (7)

E PIS(h) OD(e) E (cummings)

Instal(l)ment of Wooster's nemesis? That is comical! (7)

IE + (Roderick) SPODE

Might be US usage. Installment = induction, etc. as well as EPISODE.

Instalment record is owed to the listener (7)

ep is ode

Sanctimonious grass infiltrated networking event (7)

PI SOD in EE

Division of base by π provided density and energy (7)

(With apologies to our mathematicians) e pi so d e