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WEEKEND PEER REVIEW 278

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, March 2, when voting opens. Voting closes at 8 p.m. (UK time) the same day.

This weekend's challenge is:

RECTANGLE (9)


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 the top 3 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).

Have fun and good luck!

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Gentle arc became crashed corner, we hear - it's almost square (9)

(I'll get that in to start with, but I may tweak it when I can give more attention!)

Where dominant sides push their shorter counterparts into corners on the square (9)

Assembled clan greet angular figure (9)

Elegant Roman Catholic could be a square - not quite (9)

Treacle drizzled over? No good for the figure! (9)

Figure it's an appalling clanger to allow alien infiltration (9)

ET interspersed with CLANGER*

Rectum, no doubt, could have an inclination to be a lopsided shape (9)

Get in a mess again drinking some Cointreau in a bar (9)

C in RETANGLE

About to take awkward glance at curvy maiden’s figure (9)

(GLANCE C)* in RE

(Slightly questionable use of “maiden” to mean “first”)