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)

[elliemay1]

Yes, Canary

[Canary42]

Thanks Elliemay.

 

Do the rail companies return from the sea up north (8)

 

 

[Patsy33]

Well done Canary!

[elliemay1]

Scotland? 

 

[Canary42]

Wow elliemay, I'm impressed, I thought that was a killer.

Scotland is indeed correct

Rail companies are known as TOCS (train operating companies)

return gives SCOT

from the sea = LAND

and of course the definition up north gives SCOTLAND

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[elliemay1]

Thanks Canary,

I thought that was it (Train Operating Companies (TOCs)) but didn't add it in case I was wrong!

[elliemay1]

a barricade caused by a slab and Mr Edmondson reportedly (7)

[Patsy33]

Well done Ellie!

[Patsy33]

Blockade

[dustypuss]

Scotland !.  Dustypuss is crawling back into his hole🐢🐢

[elliemay1]

Yes Patsy 

[Patsy33]

Now car maker is in English city.(8)

[Moorea7]

? Bradford

[elliemay1]

Hereford

[dustypuss]

Deptford

[Patsy33]

Yes, Ellie 😀 

[elliemay1]

Thank you Patsy

in favour of money or weight to put forward an idea (8)

[Moorea7]

? Propound

[elliemay1]

Yes, Moorea

[Moorea7]

Impossible but, at the curry house, it seems that little Mr. Littlewood has two small fathers!   9.