Clue Chain 9

[Canary42]

Starting Clue Chain 9 - all welcome 😊

The idea of the game is that the setter poses an original home-made clue which everybody is invited to solve.  The poster who solves the clue first (hopefully identified by the setter) is then invited to post their own original clue, easy or cryptic.  If nobody has answered the clue within 30 minutes, the setter should post a further hint and so on until the clue is solved.

Patsy, please provide a clue when you're ready. Thank you.

[Canary42]

Writer’s stolen little Victoria’s change (8)

 

[Patsy33]

Shrapnel??

[Canary42]

Sorry, not shrapnel

[Patsy33]

I was thinking 'change'

[Canary42]

It's time for a hint I think.

Writer’s stolen little Victoria’s change (8)

N ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 

[dustypuss]

Nicholas

[Hazlinny]

? Novelist    anagram stolen + Vi

[Canary42]

Sorry DP, not Nicholas.

Well done Hazlinny, Novelist is correct 😊

[Hazlinny]

Thank you 😊

Was it the first small lodging place?  (7, 3)

[Canary42]

Very flaky, but here goes :-

Opening Inn ?

[Hazlinny]

One word is correct.

[Patsy33]

Premier Inn

[Hazlinny]

Yes Patsy 😊

[Patsy33]

Refuse heap alongside fish finds something moreish. (8)

[Hazlinny]

? Dumpling

[Patsy33]

Correct, Haz! 😃

[Hazlinny]

Thanks 😊

Cheesy type confuses us with gems.  (6)

[Canary42]

jewels ?

[Hazlinny]

Yes they are but which kind?   

[Canary42]

Anagram brie and us = RUBIES ?