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A fantastic turnout for this PD challenge, not everyone's cup of tea, but a record entry for our Printer's Devilry competitions – many thanks to all.
 
A clear favourite this month and incredibly Margaret's third win of the year! Hearty congratulations Margaret, certainly on top form at the moment, and well done for raising many a smile with your clue!
 
Second place goes to Barry with his clue that cleverly switched senses between devilled and undevilled – only one previous podium before – a 5th back in 2011 – so well done Barry for achieving your highest placing to date.
 
Third spot goes to another form horse – this is Steve's third podium finish in a row! – commendable consistency, and creating such a wonderfully bizarre devilled image I thought!
 
Fourth place for Tom – first podium of the year for this regular high finisher – with the best of the "shopping" clues.
 
And the final podium position goes to another familiar name, Mike fighting hard to maintain his annual position and still displaying tremendous consistency.
 
Well done to everybody who took part in cluing and voting!

Voting Information

Voting is open until Midnight UK time on Saturday 17th August.
 
Please award FIVE points maximum to the clue you judge best: FOUR points for second, THREE for third, TWO for fourth, down to ONE point for fifth; but otherwise you may distribute your votes as you see fit including ½ marks for split voting – as long as you award no more than 15 points IN TOTAL and no more than 5 points to any one clue…
 
…and of course you may NOT VOTE for your own clue!
 
COMMENTS:
 
Your comments in general and on individual clues, however much or little you write, are always most welcome! Please remember that if any particular clue or clues do not find favour with you, it is more helpful to offer constructive criticism – many of our members are keen to learn and hone their clue writing skills through our competition – feedback may be useful for their future efforts!

Entry Information

A Printer's Devilry clue is a passage from which the printer has removed a hidden answer, closing the gap and sometimes taking liberties with the punctuation and spacing, but not disturbing the order of the remaining letters. There is no need to include a definition of PEAR in your clue, but there is nothing to stop you if you so wish. However, from past experience, few judges give any extra merit for this unnecessary hard work!

A previous Azed winner will provide as an example:

Vaulting above tunnel entrance appears inane, scary
Answer: PESTO.
Undevilled version: Vaulting above tunnel entrance appears in an escape story

Every passage, when complete, should make sense. NB Many "judges" will normally give preference to PD clues in which the breaks before and after the word omitted (before and after omission) do not occur at the ends or beginnings of words in the clue.

Please give the full undevilled version of your clue as the EXPLANATION – plus any additional notes required.

So your challenge is to compose a PD clue for PEAR, entries, please, by MIDNIGHT BST FRIDAY 2nd AUGUST.