Clue Chain 3

[Hazlinny]

Miser has kindly asked me to start Chain 3 so here goes ...

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.

My clue:  Lightly touch a seabird would indicate a design. (7)

[Hazlinny]

It's indicative, the evidence seems to be in the roof space without one of the 20th.  (11)

[Canary42]

symptom at(t)ic

symptomatic

[Hazlinny]

Yes, Canary 😊

[Canary42]

Thank you.

 

After a bit of a hooha, Heather became a writer (7)

 

[Hazlinny]

?Carling

[Canary42]

 A good try, you're only half wrong.

[Hazlinny]

Rowling?  J.K.

[Canary42]

Yes, well done 😊

[Hazlinny]

To govern after BC a small size moves on to what sounds as though it is plumb. (12)

[Canary42]

   I keep wanting to say perpendicula but I can't parse it and I believe there should be an r on the end which blows the word count. Oh well, back to more head-scratching. 😁    😁    😁    😁   😁    😁    😁    😁    😁    😁    😁    😁    😁    😁    😁    😁    😁    😁    😁    😁 

[Hazlinny]

Scratch/scratch 😂  To govern is the definitive.

[haras2]

administrate

[Hazlinny]

Yes, Haras 😊

AD (after BC)  mini  strate (sounds iike straight / plumb)

[haras2]

Great Hazlinny ☺

Hooligan rotated field of grass round and round

[Moorea7]

Letter count please

 

[Canary42]

How many letters  ?

[haras2]

Sorry :-((

5

[Canary42]

yahoo

[haras2]

Yes Canary!

[Canary42]

 

 

Fish tongue sounds a bit spicy (6)