Word of the Week: Zareba

Variants on this seem a bit obvious, but...

Zebra put out by a thorny hedge.

Stateless Zara Bates reconstituted African civil protection.

Inspired by GR8 TXTS:

Asleep, a bear smashed the thorny fence.

Gonzales' fourth exhortation heard around the village walls.

Insurance policy secreted in credenza rebate.

That's a hefty hurdle you planted before other comers, Geoff B. Though I wonder who can craft the best zareba clue by IGNORING the zebra convenience??

As dandy as your clue reads - 10/10 really, perfection - sometimes the mark of clue-mongering is to resist the brightest path, a little like clueing GERMANIUM, the element, without any reference to a certain flower.

(In fact, this vein of clueing may well reappear as a future Storm. In the meantime, who can make the best non-zebra zareba? So far Criseyde is the breakaway leader - )

Back Lincoln right into Arizona stockade

Sorry...I think it commands an exclamation mark...

Back Lincoln right into Arizona stockade! (6)

I'd leave broken, Arabized, natural protection
Defence of some wannabe razzamatazz
Screen the hidden influenza rebate

I'd leave broken, Arabized, natural protection
Defence of some wannabe razzamatazz
Screen the hidden influenza rebate

*chuckles* I knew it was low-hanging fruit at the time. An alternative:

McEntire, following Zambian leaders, circles African village.

Sorry about the double post.

First zones are bases for pointless fence

Inhabitants of Al Hayz are baffled by village defence.

(Would have liked to use Fez, but it's the wrong part of Africa.)

A variant providing misdirection for experienced cryptic solvers, although it's a bit thin:

Inhabitants of Al Hayz are back around village.

Brazen out a non-thorny obstacle

My last entry for this word, I think:

Defence has many points in bizarre ballgame, but loses fourth quarter.

Without which village is undefended, bare, confused, with zoo animals starting to encircle

In part of Africa, be razor-back protection! (6)

Returning artistic leader Luhrmann grabs 'Fledermaus': shells out for screening rights.

Zara Bate lost time and a consort to a labyrinthine set-up.

Braze a cast iron curtain.

Nice one, RobT

Attacking zebus and area of thorns

Bring Berra back! The heart of malapropism is lost somewhere between extremes of Zappa and sharp catcher.

ps Thanks m.

Leading British agents pursued Ezra Pound over prickly circulation

Roughly raze primary barricade and protective enclosure

Great clues all round. Criseyde, Gonzales is gold!

Whoops. 9.20PM post was mine.

Unknown plays centre-half back, circling about Hawthorn defence?

Or perhaps...

Unknown plays centre-half back, stuffing about in Hawthorn defence?

Last variation (promise) then I'll give up on the idea. In case "unknown" for "z" is a bit too dodgy...

Hawthorn frontline are eclipsed by Fitzroy's centre-half back

Sorry, that should have been-

Hawthorn defenders are eclipsed by Fitzroy's centre-half back

4 shots needed? Sounds like Hawthorn...;)

Azerbaijani's half-mended village defence