Cryptic Square-Off

So, DA, you mean instead of, say, me putting "dg" in 'Your name" under 'Leave a Comment' I'd put, say, "nerd" as my alias? Would I leave "Your email address" blank?

Can one give more than one clue for a particulat word?

ARSON - Loud preacher promises fire
FLEET - Not a slow news location
SCENT - Smells out dollars, cents
ROUSE - Awaken grazing game bird

SCENT - Scientist "loses it"! Is creating a stink.
CANOE - Ocean craft.

TENET - Rule of thumb initially worried teen

Just reserving the name. Clues to follow...

CAROL: King sings Wenceslas song.

SCENT: Aroma of a odd (sic) neonate.

SCARF: Joint to scare away a stroke.

ROUSE - Awaken English flower

FLEET - Turn tail and get back fast

TENET - View the insect regularly

ROUSE - Ignite incense

SCENT - Shift stance without a stink

FLEET - Famous street squad

SCARF - Stole crack off gangster

CANOE- Dug out re-draft of a gun code

ROUSE: Stir trouser dweller

FLEET: Fast tailender in Imperial measures.

Sorry, should be a q-mark given the dual purpose of "dug out"-

CANOE- Dug out re-draft of a gun code?

SCENT - Cream starts the fall to No.5

Just reserving the name.

ARSON: "Here's Johnny!", decapitated by serious crime.

Decalogue

Across

1. She covets each neighbour's trappings (originally it made sense)
2. Murderer #1 lost one odd craft
3. Burn out airhorn regularly on Sunday
4. Get up and complain! Premier is stolen
5. Dashing founding father's honour (in geek speak)

Down

1. Bloody Mark (the original follower) will swallow everything
2. False idols care not; side against Scrooge
3. Succeed ultimately: lie in court
4. Necktie with scent, adulterated by nothing
5. This puzzle's theme, each way?

FLEET - Formation of uneven false teeth
FLEET - Flying legends embrace novice

SCENT - Adolescent lacking a bob for bouquet.

NOOSE - Fixes one very large gin

SCENT = Heat stench and stir for fresh smell

ARSON - Crusader in cape dispenses with preliminary games to reveal incendiary side.

TENET - Held true by leaders of the European nuclear energy trust

ROUSE - Love-in scam to excite!

CAROL - Coral confused her lyrics

CAROL - Merry-go-round is useless by candlelight?

TENET - Dogma about evenly strewn sects

ENSUE - Ensure rejects succeed.

ARSON - Headless god working to burn the house down

FLEET - Swift legends about Lilliputian capital

CANOE - John evenly rode kayak

CANOE: In reverse, on a craft.

ARSON - A redhead's operating?!

SCENT - a sea in old mail?

ROUSE - Got up, turn in, get up.

ENSUE - Follow up beaut singer regularly

CAROL - a link between Dicken's and a Vorderman

A throw back to the Countdown, the UK version of Letters and Numbers:)

NOOSE - Back soon - drug loophole.

NOOSE - Snare knothole, per se?

NOOSE: Halterneck top worn by loose lout.

TENET - Egghead dwells in tent, it is believed

CAROL: Gondoliers' song: bare trash heard at Christmas

CAROL - Carlton losing NT tussle leads to Magpie's song

ENSUE - Open Suez passage flow

Here's my decalogue too (reserving rights to amend).

Across:

SCENT - Adolescent lacking a bob for bouquet
CANOE - John evenly rode kayak
ARSON - A redhead's operating?!
ROUSE - Love-in scam to excite!
FLEET - Swift legends about Lilliputian capital

Down:

SCARF - Stole crack off gangster
CAROL - Gondoliers' song: bare trash heard at Christmas
ENSUE - Ensure rejects succeed
NOOSE - Back soon - drug loophole
TENET - Egghead dwells in tent, it is believed

SCARF - A batman villian without an ace

CAROL - Ach! Back out of BBQ song

TENET - Bar English and French rule

ARSON - When Far Side creator's a little lighter?!

With thanks to SK:

SCARF - Wolf fight-back taking centre stage

FLEET - Quick General, in fort

TENET - Belief unaffected by revolution
ARSON - Burn mix of sonar
CANOE - Wild ocean vessel!
ROUSE - Provoke pounds and euros
SCENT - Trail climb was topped off

ARSON - Priest was guillotined and burnt

FLEET - Left, left, left, le... confusion is fast.
SCARF - Does car fuel gauge show guzzle?
CAROL - Lorca tortured to sing.
ENSUE - Result if it is taken from the master bedroom.
NOOSE - To hang one so horrible.

ARSON- It's a crime war, so neutrals stay inside
TENET- Strong belief can channel alien?
TENET- Dogma evident in two movies

XXX POOR TASTE (AND/OR POOR SPELLING) ALERT XXX

FLEET- Oddly felt erect, and full of seamen
ENSUE- Follow secure rout?

TENET - Belief found in ten ethical pronouncements.

SCARF- Screws, flange heads secured car muffler

NOOSE- Trap mongoose and put the cat out

Amendment to Scarf (and remembering a Loroso rule...)

SCARF- Screws, flanges, leads secure car muffler

Just smoothing over two of my clues.

Canoe: Murderer #1 lost in craft
Noose: Necktie & red bouquet; adulterate with love

With thanks to Quadrille for bouquet (I used it slightly differently). Also props for 'stole' which would have been very useful had I thought of it.

I just submitted this, but it seems to have been eaten by the spam filter. I'll try without the URL. It was to the wiki entry on imaginary numbers, although I have since realised i could also refer to 1 or 9. Freaky.

SCARF - A Doctor had one kind of transport in science fiction

Correction

ENSUE - Result if it is taken from the master bathroom.

CANOE - Use a paddle to punish outside head office

Possible tweak to an earlier one:

FLEET - Quick - shelter in fort

and:

ROUSE - Call records lost from relief work
ROUSE - Advocate lost second sight after right call

Across:

SCENT - Trail abridged scene with final stunt.
CANOE - Boat returning east on current.
ARSON - Comedian after initial set on fire.
ROUSE - Stir grouse nog.
FLEET - Armada retreat before initial thrust.

Down:

SCARF - Fashion accessory brand on fleece top.
CAROL - Listeners bow after stirring orca song.
ENSUE - Follow directions about turn.
NOOSE - Noosphere surrounds a closed loop?
TENET - Vietnam offensive about direction of dogma.

A better clue for ENSUE might be: Follow three-point turn direction.

To see just how well-defined a style people have, it would be really interesting to see DA's stab at matching the people up to the clues (without looking at the email addresses). Or is that just likely to be way too hard?

Ah yes Hip. The ultimate game of cluedo. Maybe I should get all of you to take a stab and eliminate the red herrings.

Some delicious clues here. And equally cool aliases. Yours, Gross

Now on attempt number five to post my decalogue. Is there a word below that is tripping the spam filter?

SCENT - Broadcast issued, followed by hounds.
CANOE - Craft tippy under President Harrison.
ARSON - Setters' boy reported fire starting.
ROUSE - Insect changes sides to get out of bed.
FLEET - Last pit supports? Run away, fast.

SCARF - Goes around neck to mark defender.
CAROL - Part of Tosca rolls 'em in the aisles when sung in December.
ENSUE - Follow loser guarantee.
NOOSE - Knot adds nothing to feature.
TENET - Arepo's job (when not sowing) was to do this to wheels.

ROUSE- We got covered in egg at rally

NOOSE - Zip in bowtie

CAROL - Neither Alice, Ted, nor Bob sang in December

SCARF - Nearly frighten French babushka

ARSON - Illegally fired vicar retires quietly

TENET: Small lady can eat without a principle.

CANOE - W. C. Fields' timeless poem "Paddle"

or

CANOE - W. C. Fields' central poem "Paddle"

and

SCENT - Last scene stolen by model by a nose

ARSON - Confectioner lost CEO on firing

CANOE - Once a floating contraption?

FLEET - Ships fifty 12 x 12 inch boxes

Just shifting an apostrophe:

CAROL - Carlton losing NT tussle leads to Magpies' song

And an alternative:

SCARF - Baker who had one kind of transport in science fiction

SCARF - fracas returned when missing a winter warmer

Here's my summary:

SCENT – Last scene stolen by model by a nose

CANOE – W. C. Fields’ central poem “Paddle”

ARSON – Confectioner lost CEO on firing

ROUSE – Advocate lost second sight after right call

FLEET – Quick, shelter in fort

SCARF – Wolf fight back taking centre stage

CAROL – Ach! Back out of BBQ song

ENSUE – Open Suez passage flow

NOOSE – Snare knothole, per se?

TENET – Rule of thumb initially worried teen

Here are my ten all in one place:

ACROSS:

SCENT - Cream starts the fall to No.5
CANOE - Use a paddle to punish outside head office
ARSON - Headless god working to burn the house down
ROUSE - Awaken English flower
FLEET - Turn tail and get back fast

DOWN:

SCARF - Baker who had one kind of transport in science fiction
CAROL - Carlton losing NT tussle leads to Magpies' song
ENSUE - Follow up beaut singer regularly
NOOSE - Fixes one very large gin
TENET - Bar English and French rule

Not sure if my noose is legal. If not then an alternative:

NOOSE - Fixes one welcoming, very large gin

Just one more tweak, I promise:

NOOSE - Fix one welcoming, very large gin

NOOSE - Honda creates death trap

FLEET - Quick rewrite of fifty legends

TENET - Is getting high in a tent OK?

Here are mine in one place (with some multiples...is that allowed?)

SCENT- Trail starts steeply, challenging even nimble trekkers
CANOE- Dug out re-draft of a gun code?!
CANOE- "Voyageur" was an inside runner
ARSON- It's a crime war, so neutrals stay inside
ROUSE- We got covered in egg at rally
FLEET- Oddly felt erect, and full of seamen

SCARF- Screws, flanges, leads secure car muffler
CAROL- Introductory Christmas anthem rings out loud!
ENSUE- Follow secure rout?
ENSUE- Update us...never hold back result
NOOSE- Trap mongoose and put the cat out
TENET- Strong belief can channel alien?
TENET- Dogma evident in two movies

Miss Scarlett in the library with the candlestick. (or Mr X in the 7-down with an anagram?)

ENSUE - Some see us needing to reflect to succeed later.

ENSUE - Some see us needing reflexes to succeed.

Sorry for the spam-net catching some of your clues. Alas, this time round, I've culled all suspected spam en bloc, but let me know in future if the problem persists.

By the way, thanks for tapering your stuff down into master lists - a huge help!

Back from a sad few days in the sticks, and look forward to being cheered by some clever stuff here. Thanks to all four corners of Squareville.

My ten

SCARF - Neckwear fracas, not a comeback
NOOSE - Neckwear to be soon part of a comeback
CAROL - I saw three ships in America roll over
ENSUE - Happen to be sunstruck in eyelids
TENET - Principle of drug-taking camp member
SCENT - Smell of expressed air
CANOE - Switch about over paddled boat
ARSON - Sonar device badly lit
ROUSE - Wake upto con job about sweet FA
FLEET - Quick,run from the Head

SCENT - Hear emitted smell?
CANOE - Chain yoked oddly onto vessel
ARSON - Fire roars on within
ROUSE - Stir touters, tango takes two
FLEET - Nimble left feet shuffle

SCARF - Discard Scarface (hung from neck)
CAROL - Brady tune, perhaps
ENSUE - Develop woven suede interior
NOOSE - Unloosen a cut ulna (hung from neck)
TENET - Mirrored view?

Here is my lot, more neatly arranged. Note that it is meant to be taken as a set, hence the title and the last clue.

Decalogue

SCENT - She covets each neighbour's trappings (originally it made sense)
CANOE - Murderer #1 lost in craft
ARSON - Burn out airhorn regularly on Sunday
ROUSE - Get up and complain! Premier is stolen
FLEET - Dashing founding father's honour (in geek speak)

SCARF - Bloody Mark (the original follower) will swallow everything
CAROL - False idols care not; side against Scrooge
ENSUE - Succeed ultimately: lie in court
NOOSE - Necktie and red bouquet; adulterate with love
TENET - This puzzle's theme, each way?

ROUSE - incite parasite by swapping hands

TENET - firm belief in palindrome

My final set collated, with a few tweaks

SCENT - Smells out dollars, cents
SCENT = Heat stench and stir for fresh smell
CANOE - Can Old English stay afloat?
ARSON - Loud preacher promises fire
ROUSE - Awaken grazing game bird
FLEET - Not a slow news location
FLEET - Quick rewrite of fifty legends

SCARF - Al Capone loses best club in hoodie
CAROL - Coral confuses lyrics
ENSUE - Follow cutting of green suede
NOOSE - Tie tightly although initially no occupational overuse syndrome evident
TENET - Dogma about evenly strewn sects
TENET - Is getting high in tent OK?

Last two:

ENSUE - Follow Sudanese riot (without ads)

CANOE - Able to overtake empty vessel

CANOE - It has helped move people about over time

TENET - Belief in aliens?
NOOSE - It's a tiny margin with nothing in it. It's Tightrope by a neck!

Pseudos, just to ensure things are fair and square, I have top-10 lists for Fed, i, Pants, Avenger, Peg, Box Brownie, squared circle, T, Hip and Quadrille, yes? (And still no firm idea who you are, honest.)

Elsewhere, The Rhombus has provided 7, while the likes of Kasparov, ADB, Gridlock, Red et al offer smithereens. That seems the picture. Shall wait till Thursday sundown for any advance on this status. Out.

Just adding an attempted &lit version of my SCARF clue.

SCARF - Baker who had one twisted round in science fiction!

My ten grouped together;

SCENT - Scientist "loses it"! Is creating a stink.
CANOE - Ocean craft.
ARSON - Crusader in cape dispenses with preliminary games to reveal incendiary side.
ROUSE - Got up, turn in, get up.
FLEET - Left, left, left, le... confusion is fast.
SCARF - Does car fuel gauge show guzzle?
CAROL - Lorca tortured to sing.
ENSUE - Result if it is taken from the master bathroom.
NOOSE - To hang one so horrible.
or
NOOSE - To hang one, so horrible!
TENET - Belief found in ten ethical pronouncements.

My top 12, fave being canoe.

SCENT: The smell and sound of money
CANOE: First craft to break the sound barrier?
ARSON: Pinching the priest's nose is a crime
ROUSE: Wake up hearing arguments
FLEET: Ships left at sea without bearing

SCARF: Devour second baby seal for the audience
CAROL: Zeiss wraps lens at Christmas
ENSUE: Make certain there's no right to follow
NOOSE: Queensland tourist trap not a drug trap
NOOSE: Soon swapped partners to finish the tie
TENET: Send note back and forth about new belief
TENET: Backtracking on this belief won't change it

Some further refinements:

Across:

SCENT - Adolescent short of a bob for bouquet
CANOE - John evenly rode kayak
ARSON - A redhead's active?!
ROUSE - Love-in device to titillate!
FLEET - Swift legends about Lilliputian capital

Down:

SCARF - Stole crack off gangster?
CAROL - Dear Italian letterhead appears at Christmas
ENSUE - Ensure rejects succeed
NOOSE - Lethal loophole: party drug soon back
TENET - Egyptian leader dwells in tent, it is believed

Whoops, just gave me away. Oh well, multiple computers...

Was wondering if that SCARF was yours Boniface, it's a cracker!

One of the advantages, Mr Frost, of being America’s greatest square is that one is unlikely to fall through the cracks, yet I find myself fearing this may indeed have happened (or ensued). So I humbly resubmit my ten, in standard form, after which this comp won’t have Nixon to kick around any more.

Across:

SCENT - Shift stance without a stink
CANOE - Able to overtake empty vessel
ARSON - Illegally-fired vicar retires quietly
ROUSE - Ignite incense
FLEET - Famous street squad

Down:

SCARF - Nearly frighten French babushka
CAROL - Florence Henderson sang in December
ENSUE - Follow Sudanese riot (without ads)
NOOSE - Zip in bowtie
TENET - View the insect regularly

and one alternative:
CAROL - Neither Alice, Ted, nor Bob sang in December

ARSON - South Africans introducing issue of fire damage?
TENET - Belief in aliens either way
NOOSE - It's a tiny margin with nothing in it. Tightrope by a neck!
CANOE - It has helped move people about over time
ENSUE - Some see us needing reflexes to succeed

CAROL - Merry-go-round is useless by candlelight?
SCENT - Hit for 6¢ fragrance.
ROUSE - Scraps call for wake-up
FLEET - Winged vessels
SCARF - Futuristic garage band?
(SF with car within)

Different approach: each clue has definitions for all 5 across/down answers plus all-in wordplay.

ACROSS
Pick up craft, setting fire to rear? Navy concentrates on release of US engineers (5,5,5,5,5)
DOWN
Something around neck, girl to follow with rope; conviction for arousal etc – one’s sentence commuted? (5,5,5,5,5)

Here goes:
SCENT: Aroma of a odd(sic) neonate.
CANOE: In reverse, on a craft.
ARSON: "Here's Johnny", decapitated by serious crime.
ROUSE: Excite trouser dweller.
FLEET: Fast tailender in Imperial measures.

SCARF: Joint to frighten away a stroke.
CAROL: Berry does Barnett.
ENSUE: Follow each usual suspect noiselessly. Eventually back to their origin.
NOOSE: Halterneck top worn by loose lout.
TENET: Small lady can eat without a principle.

Just throwing another one into the ring.

SCENT: Coins "The last shall be first" for eternity

......square

CANOE
Act One’s rewritten without the chief outrigger

SCARF
Donny Brook returns, without a winter warmer

ENSUE
Stem pointless unseen riot

CANOE
Half dance on the empty orange boat

ARSON
Crime of the headless preacher

Arson- Fire without e reason
Canoe- A vessel in an ocean scramble
Noose - pinocchio hanging around?
Tenet - Computerised camping mixup?
Ensue - Unseen scramble without a double

Have made some final adjustments and am resubmitting my 10. Please disregard any previous entries.

SCENT - Coins "The last shall be first" for eternity
CANOE - Use a paddle to punish outside Head Office
ARSON - Battlefront lost numbers returning offensive fire
ROUSE - Awaken English flower
FLEET - Turn tail and get back fast
SCARF - Baker who had one mode of transport in science fiction
CAROL - Carlton thrashed without new tactics - starts Magpies' song
ENSUE - Follow up beaut singer regularly
NOOSE - Fix one welcoming, very large gin
TENET - Bar English and French rule

Here's my final entry:

Across:

SCENT - Adolescent short of a bob for bouquet
CANOE - John evenly rode kayak
ARSON - A redhead's active?!
ROUSE - Love-in device to titillate!
FLEET - Swift legends about Lilliputian capital

Down:

SCARF - Stole crack off gangster?
CAROL - Dear Italian letterhead appears at Christmas
ENSUE - Ensure rejects succeed
NOOSE - Lethal loophole: party drug soon back
TENET - Egyptian leader dwells in tent, it is believed

I have a better TENET:

TENET - Cross-eyed 10/10 vision?

ARSON - South Africans introducing issue of fire damage?
NOOSE - It's a tiny margin with nothing in it. Tightrope by a neck!
CANOE - It has helped move people about over time
ENSUE - Some see us needing reflexes to succeed

CAROL - Merry-go-round is useless by candlelight?
SCENT - Hit for 6¢ fragrance.
ROUSE - Scraps call for wake-up
FLEET - Winged vessels
SCARF - Futuristic garage band?
(SF with car within)

"I'm going away. Don't ar", what is your full name?

SCENT: Emitted loud sniff
CANOE: Can love drug float on water?
ARSON: Sonar ping - a criminal act?
ROUSE: Awake, hearing arguments
FLEET: Run! Model is swift!
SCARF: Stole vehicle in San Francisco
CAROL: Sing, girl!
ENSUE: End up hollow, eaten by Peggy
NOOSE: Returning soon? Then take back Saddam's necktie
TENET: Truth drug found in teepee

U tile:

Those are my five Christian names. My parents, Mr and Mrs Square, had a cruel sense of humour.

But they've gone now.

I didn't ar square.

One of them was called "Unfairan"?

Yes, you've heard of him. He became a judge but they sacked him.

Then he got into the ragtrade and now owns a chain of mensquare stores.

Talking of Cluedo, I'd hazard a guess that Madison did it in the study with a pen;-)