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Welcome to Word Game 64. Much thanks to Rob for moderating the previous contest.
The title rCLFrench letterrCY is my cutesy way of meaning any letter thatrCOs not one of the standard 26, whether it has a diacritic or a ligature or is some other kind of letter. Examples are |a or |o or |# or ||. In this contest, please write and post here a cryptic clue whose answer is a word or phrase that is not totally foreign in English but does have one or more of these non-standard letters. The hitch is that if any wordplay wants |a clued by ae or |o by c, etc., it must have some possibly vague indication of the needed manipulation. Multiple entries are OK.
The deadline is December 6, 2021.
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Like someone no longer with it, speak endlessly and wildly about sex without former spouse, and do it with an accent (5)

Luciano
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Resident wastes time being a bit dotty and childlike (5)

Luciano
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Feature of a word one found in the western outskirts of Hradec Kr|ilov|-? (5) Luciano
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Place to drink coffee and find |-clairs, to begin with (4)
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On Tuesday, November 23, 2021 at 7:42:16 AM UTC-5, Mark Iredell wrote:

Welcome to Word Game 64. Much thanks to Rob for moderating the previous contest.

The title rCLFrench letterrCY is my cutesy way of meaning any letter thatrCOs not one of the standard 26, whether it has a diacritic or a ligature or is some other kind of letter. Examples are |a or |o or |# or ||. In this contest, please write and post here a cryptic clue whose answer is a word or phrase that is not totally foreign in English but does have one or more of these non-standard letters. The hitch is that if any wordplay wants |a clued by ae or |o by c, etc., it must have some possibly vague indication of the needed manipulation. Multiple entries are OK.

The deadline is December 6, 2021.

There are only three-ish days left to enter! The more the merrier!
So far, below are the clues submitted for WG64 whose answers have a non-standard letter, and my attempts to solve them. I need help with at least one.
Luciano
Like someone no longer with it, speak endlessly and wildly about sex without former spouse, and do it with an accent (5)
PASS|e; def = like someone no longer with it; SPEAk* about Sex; French letter indication = do it with an accent
Resident wastes time being a bit dotty and childlike (5)
NA|AVE; def = childlike; NAtIVE; French letter indication = being a bit dotty Feature of a word one found in the western outskirts of Hradec Kr|ilov|-? (5) [I need help please.]
Duke
Place to drink coffee and find |-clairs, to begin with (4)
CAF|e; def = place to drink; Coffee And Find |eclairs; French letter already indicated
Turkish ogre and dragon, fighting past edge of flame -- gee, it's silent (7) ERDO-RAN; def = Turkish ogre; flamE + DRAGON*: French letter indication = gee, itrCOs silent
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NA|AVE; def = childlike; NAtIVE; French letter indication = being a bit dotty

Feature of a word one found in the western outskirts of Hradec Kr|ilov|-? (5) [I need help please.]

Mark:
ace (one) in HK (the first letters of Hradec Kr|ilov|-, which is, as we all know, a town in the Czech Republic) = hacek (or ha-iek in Czech)
a feature of the word 'ha-iek' is the ha-iek, which is the diacritical mark (-c)
Lu-iiano
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On Tuesday, November 23, 2021 at 7:42:16 AM UTC-5, Mark Iredell wrote:

Welcome to Word Game 64. Much thanks to Rob for moderating the previous contest.

The title rCLFrench letterrCY is my cutesy way of meaning any letter thatrCOs not one of the standard 26, whether it has a diacritic or a ligature or is some other kind of letter. Examples are |a or |o or |# or ||. In this contest, please write and post here a cryptic clue whose answer is a word or phrase that is not totally foreign in English but does have one or more of these non-standard letters. The hitch is that if any wordplay wants |a clued by ae or |o by c, etc., it must have some possibly vague indication of the needed manipulation. Multiple entries are OK.

The deadline is December 6, 2021.

Results of Word Game #64: French letter
Every entry clued an answer that was an acceptable word in English that had a non-standard letter, and every entryrCOs wordplay properly indicated the accent in some way, either with accented fodder or not. So well done by all contestants, and by all contestants I mean Luciano and Duke.
3 from Luciano...
Like someone no longer with it, speak endlessly and wildly about sex without former spouse, and do it with an accent (5)
PASS|e; def = like someone no longer with it; SPEAk* about Sex; French letter indication = do it with an accent
The surface makes me think of Steve MartinrCOs wild and crazy guy character, now gone a little over the hill.
Resident wastes time being a bit dotty and childlike (5)
NA|AVE; def = childlike; NAtIVE; French letter indication = being a bit dotty ...and now gone quite far over the hill.
Feature of a word one found in the western outskirts of Hradec Kr|ilov|-? (5) HA-iEK; def = the whole clue (ha-iek is the diacritical mark -c used in Czechia where that city is); ACE in HK; French letter indication = feature of a wordrCa (ha-iek has a ha-iek!)
Good &lit! I didnrCOt know the name of a -c had a -c itself. Very reflexive! This is the winner.
2 from Duke...
Place to drink coffee and find |-clairs, to begin with (4)
CAF|e; def = place to drink; Coffee And Find |eclairs; French letter already indicated
Pretty straightforward clue with a clean surface that kind of gives up the answer.
Turkish ogre and dragon, fighting past edge of flame -- gee, it's silent (7) ERDO-RAN; def = Turkish ogre; flamE + DRAGON*: French letter indication = gee, itrCOs silent
The definition fits. I didnrCOt know that that diacritical mark meant silence, but now I do! Runner-up.
Luciano is invited to moderate Word Game #65.
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