Clue Chain 10

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Starting Clue Chain 10 - 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.

The first clue is from Hazlinny as follows :-

 

Sounds a bother when I leave it shortly to head off to  fragments of concrete.  (7)

 

 

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Thank you 😊

 

Cleric hesitates to accept Kent’s backing (7)

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1st hint

 

?   ?   ?   ?   ?   ?   E

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2nd hint.  ?  E  ?  ?  ?  ?  E

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3rd hint

 

?    E    ?    E    ?    ?    E

 

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I'm off to bed now, if you get it then carry on without waiting for confirmation.

 

Thank you and Goodnight  😴