TOTW: Plus-Ones Welcome

UPDATE: The results are in!

Thankyou all for providing so many great clues. These were genuinely so much fun to try and solve. Difficulty ranged from “quite hard” to “unbelievably hard” but they were no less enjoyable for it. If your clue went unsolved please rest assured I spent a long time attempting to solve every one, you just outsmarted me.

There really were too gems to list all of them, but a few highlights:

u/zc_eric had a host of great clues including: The First Lady’s a mother (4)  &  African-American (6)

u/SatisfactoryLepton with the very clever: Couple weighing a thousand kilograms (9)

And u/lardboy with the beautifully constructed: The beginning of mass migration (7)

This week’s winner though, with a fab surface and trickery that made me laugh out loud when the +1 penny dropped, is u/kirth42 for:

Murder Australian actor in audition (4)

Thankyou all again for providing great fun with your clues!

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Many thanks to u/zc_eric for choosing my clue in last week’s TOTW.

This week: Definition should be written for "Solution +1". Or to put it another way, solvers will have to subtract one from the definition to find the solution. Wordplay should clue the actual solution as normal. You’re free to interpret “+1” as literally or creatively as you like.

For example, you could use actual numbers:

Initially there were extra large vulture eggs in baker’s dozen (6) TWELVE – being one less than than the definition - baker’s dozen - which is 13

Or sequences:

Before day breaks, I run on left to get John Major? (4,4) IRON LADY  – being a nickname of Maggie Thatcher, but not her successor as prime minister, John Major (for whom the solution would probably be "The Grey Man").

Or if your +1 def has multiple meanings and you want to get really tricksy with:

Scars broken heart (5) EARTH – the third planet from the sun. Scars here is defining "mars", meaning to scar, blemish or impede, but also the name of the fourth planet from the sun

In essence, if you can point to any measure of size, rank, position or other numerical scale where the word pointed to by your definition is reasonably referred to as one more than your solution, then go for it. If you’re doing double definitions then it’s up to you whether to go +1 on one or both of the defs, provided the clue still has one clear solution.

I suspect the difficulty level on some of these may be high, so please check in every day or so and add hints if you’ve stumped us all! I'll be back to pick a winner next Thursday.