Clue Cup

Double rum

UNUSUAL SUSPECT: Double rum
ILLO: Sick with love

Let's be kind and flag our nags. Eg -

ILLO: Pillowcase stripped

SHAMROCKER: Lip syncer?

MODUN: Piching mound

MANIGHAR: Has dropped tail in tight margin

ILLO: Blow up li-lo

TULLAMORE: Gypsies get about in fine fabric

Spooner would hammer Dad joke.

Show a trick, Rex!

Nautical idiot chases seal round rink

SHAMROCKER: Spooner would hammer Dad joke.

FOX HUNT: Show a trick, Rex!

DRUNKEN SAILOR: Nautical idiot chases seal round rink

MANIGHAR: Harming a fly

NIWOT: Break in two

AMERICAIN: Heather into a general nag

GLASS HARMONIUM: Feed animals sorghum

GLASS HARMONIUM: Spike animals' sorghum

SAPTAPADI: Papa staid bolting horse
AT FIRST SIGHT: Fights artist about where love is
NIWOT: Rearing to win

ILLO: "Chill-out Central"

DUNADEN: Nude and frisky

MOYENNE CORNICHE: Adrift on my incoherence
LOST IN THE MOMENT: Go fold into drive-on motel
DUNADEN: Without seconds, Modun made mono

LUCAS CRANACH: Martin Luther's mate for GG!

AT FIRST SIGHT: Bookmark's at Genesis 1:3, love.

AMERICAIN: Re-vampire maniac

SHAMROCKER: A man strangled by electric eel?

DUNADEN: Tawny port

SAPTAPADI - Sucker Punch, hardly commercial one

TULLAMORE - Melbourne Airport sidestepped Rome

MOURAYAN: Additional fabric announced
SAPTAPADI: Paid tapas in order

MOURAYAN: Humour a Yankee some.

THE VERMINATOR: Pied Piper in da house.

SAPTAPADI: Tapas - a dip gone wrong

UNUSUAL SUSPECT: Pseudo Echo

HAWK ISLAND: Silly walk is in the cards

MOYENNE CORNICHE: Doyenne doubles headstart in Rolls.

OLDER THAN TIME: Prepackaged meatholder, i'n't?

This one needs some work. I'm a little rusty.

MOYENNE CORNICHE: Prior to opening ceremony no jitters

LOST IN THE MOMENT: MiG? One in ute!

Oops, one i too many:

LOST IN THE MOMENT: MG? One in ute!

AT FIRST SIGHT: Dire Straits fight

JUKEBOX JURY: Witchcraft around half-kept punch lines
DRUNKEN SAILOR: Model's lankier rounds
THE VERMINATOR: Article against, um, ration at sea

RED CADEAUX: Missing Eve, Ed Devereaux about to get Skippy

TULLAMORE: Footballers caught up in netting

AMERICAIN: Baked mince, by ARIA

GLASS HARMONIUM: Bum hurt in ring, backtracking during blue

TULLAMORE: Spooner, calm a tower
FOX HUNT: Beast, German, amid feet
UNUSUAL SUSPECT: Turned star buried us, salute cup, say

SHAMROCKER: Wily hackers circumventing reconfigured ROM

A double clue:
AMERICAIN: Using "G"

NIWOT: I won't go mad.

DRUNKEN SAILOR: Busted arse lurk in Nod.

Sorry...had to vent.

DRUNKEN SAILOR: Busted arse in Nod lurk

RED CADEAUX: Embarrassed about discussing money

True, Mr X. Backers of Red Cadeaux will curse the dawn of technology.

I had Lucas in the office sweep, and felt momentarily loaded. Now it's just plain stuffed.

@DA: I had Illo placed as 2nd until it became obvious that the rider's red chapeau was that of Red Cadeaux. Sacre bleu!

ILLO: Bart will overlook this bit

No topical reference for this one

MOURAYAN: Our entry into Chichen Itza, for example.

SHAMROCKER: Milli Vanilli doing a cover of "Highway to Hell" ?

TULLAMORE: Jethro's love for Berlusconi ?

This one needs the definition

DUNADEN: Turned a nude around, embracing the winner

MANIGHAR: Docked mare held one close

PRECEDENCE: Give up in the middle of Harry trading drugs for me.

HAWK ISLAND: Sell Cockatoo or Kangaroo

After looking back over the other comments, this is a little similar to one of DA's but I'm still fond of it:

MODUN: Compost mound

GLASS HARMONIUM: Loser makes salami, gum, horns

ILLO: Pillowcases removed.

PRECEDENCE: Highest priority at knackery

LOST IN THE MOMENT: The fat seal ash

FOX HUNT: Fail to find me and a barbarian in the book.

GLASS HARMONIUM: Mug Manighar loss developed gout.

AT FIRST SIGHT: Stems hit horse

Quite a feat, Mr X - not just your string of horses, but to find MANIGHAR sitting inside GLASS HARMONIUM. That's sorcerous.

One without def:
ILLO: Li-Lo arrested

And one with:
ILLO: Li-Lo: fashion or sporting icon?

And a dig at apostrophe abusers:
MOURAYAN: 'Your' a man? Wrong!

OLDER THAN TIME: Prehistoric?

It's no Tatach, but:

LOST IN THE MOMENT: Molostment

@EM: or

THEM TO MELON ST!

AT FIRST SIGHT: "This isn't graft" spins tout

This one needs the definition

LUCAS CRANACH: Casual crunch turns but turn's out for a placegetter

Another one with a definition

DRUNKEN SAILOR: Shanty or Lisa ?

SAPTAPADI: I hid a pat past a hidden retreat

UNUSUAL SUSPECT: Set cups

TULLAMORE: New Zealander said to prepare field for Italian love?

NIWOT: Spooner's drunk friend in recital?

Tweak:

NIWOT: I hear Spooner's drunk

JUKEBOX JURY: Where records were scored ?

THE VERMINATOR: Mover in theatre moved. Cute.

MOYENNE CORNICHE: Money thrown at weak internet jokes in a specialist market.

OLDER THAN TIME: Big Bang Eve ?

And there's the field. Here's a bonus one that summarised my Cup experience
NIWOT: Backed to win ... but didn't.

JUKEBOX JURY: Sidestep beat-board

MANIGHAR: Harming anew

PRECEDENCE: Lead séance out of the blue

OLDER THAN TIME: Doctor, treat hind mole

FOX HUNT: Discolour hue and cry

Hope these don't tread on anyone's toes, I haven't read the whole list through thoroughly.
HAWK ISLAND; Flog one small boy with broken tailpiece.
ILLO; "My brother Billo is a nob" (with apologies to Borat)

Like JD, I haven't had a chance to scan the field, so apologies if any of the following duplicate the ideas of others.

AMERICAIN (with def): Usain Bolter?

JUKEBOX JURY: Holds several records in centre-court decider

AT FIRST SIGHT: Dawn dropped two sizes?

DUNADEN: Ceduna dental nurses

GLASS HARMONIUM: During Cup sweep, girl hit on me

PRECEDENCE: Before churches embraced study

MOYENNE CORNICHE: Small-time currency to enrich once exchanged

NIWOT: Spooner's constipation

THE VERMINATOR: Schwarzenegger movie in TV adaptation?

TULLAMORE: Submarine out for more in terminal location

HAWK ISLAND: Wartime Korea on air, perhaps?

HAWK ISLAND: Mork's Mountain, according to Spooner

I'll have to think about the 3 placegetters from my lot. What a compiler enjoys about a clue is often different to what tickles a solver.

One of mine needs a correction

AT FIRST SIGHT: "This isn't graft" - spin taken.

OK Here's my trifecta of favourites:

LOST IN THE MOMENT: The fat seal ash

(The "The" may be optional, I prefer it included)

SHAMROCKER: One of Milli Vanilli covering "Highway to Hell" ?

(If including a defintion is allowed)
AMERICAIN: Using "G-star"

(If no definition)
HAWK ISLAND: Sell cockatoo, lizard or kangaroo.

Well here are my 3.

TULLAMORE: Revolting gypsies clothed in fine fabric
DUNADEN: Nude and disorderly
SAPTAPADI: Tapas - a dip gone wrong

Thanks to DA... and Dunaden, glad you had those extra whiskers.

FOX HUNT: Unknown element in source.
RED CADEAUX: Axed a crude rendition.

Here are my three:

FOX HUNT: Discolour hue and cry
PRECEDENCE: Lead séance out of the blue
LOST IN THE MOMENT: MG? One in ute!

Picking 3..

AMERICAIN (with def): Usain Bolter?

JUKEBOX JURY: Holds several records in centre-court decider

AT FIRST SIGHT: Dawn dropped two sizes?

But I'm also kinda fond of the relevance of-

GLASS HARMONIUM: During Cup sweep, girl hit on me

I'll lock in my 3 (out of 4)
FOX HUNT: Unknown element in source.
RED CADEAUX: Axed a crude rendition
HAWK ISLAND: Flog one small boy with broken tailpiece.

TULLAMORE: New Zealander said to prepare field for Italian love?
LOST IN THE MOMENT: Molostment
MOURAYAN: 'Your' a man? Wrong!

JUKEBOX JURY: Witchcraft around half-kept punch lines
AMERICAIN: Re-vampire maniac
MOYENNE CORNICHE: Adrift on my incoherence

And if definition was allowed:
AT FIRST SIGHT: Fight artists about where love is

Thanks for your stable rosters. Is it time to shut the gate? All done?

No! Gimme a few minutes!

SHAMROCKER: Spooner would hammer Dad joke.
DRUNKEN SAILOR: Nautical idiot chases seal round rink
RED CADEAUX: Missing Eve, Ed Devereaux about to get Skippy

Consider them coralled, RobT.