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Summer Siesta

23 December, 2014

DA.com will be taking its customary Yule lull for a month, resuming in late January. Visitors will still find diversion through the weekly Birdbrain puzzles, as well as the WoW - or Word of the Week, which you're free to clue. Thirdly, to break up the week, I will be dropping down some vintage Brit clues - circa 1995 - with answers supplied in the follow-up post.

Before that blab, however, take a crack. See if you can keep a perfect score. And if you're feeling inspired, or adequately charged by Xmas pudding, have a go at composing your own clues for the same answers.

Good luck with both, and thanks for a tribal 2014 - or the Year of the Manuscript as I call it. With Riddling all but written, I have a junior title now to cover before March 10. Yes, a busy man for his sins. Enjoy your break - cheers. 

1. Love in spring may result in ring (4)

2. Having defective hearing, one abandoned blower (7)

3. See you came with cooked rice (11)

4. Publication followed report (5)

5. Original mole-catcher arranged spy's end (3,4,5)

6. Bunch of keys found in trash (6)

7. One in movies! (5)

Share your answers, tips and/or DIY clues below.

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