EPEE (4)

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Equipment pointed primarily at core need for a non-lame sport? (4)

E_ P_ nEEd
A non-lame sport? = def: Foil and sabre fencing use a lamé jacket to complete the circuit with the conductive region on the weapon and make it clear when a touch has been made on the target area, but epee does not require a lamé because a touch counts anywhere on the body as long as the tip of the weapon is depressed.
(Clue/definition updated and resubmitted because my partner who is a fencer just reminded me that epee is in fact the one type of fencing that *doesn't* use a lamé...)

(If épée doesn't need accents for this competition, as the competition title indicates, then I will argue that lamé does not either!)

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9547 Equipment pointed primarily at core need for a non-lame sport? (4) E_ P_ nEEd
A non-lame sport? = def: Foil and sabre fencing use a lamé jacket to complete the circuit with the conductive region on the weapon and make it clear when a touch has been made on the target area, but epee does not require a lamé because a touch counts anywhere on the body as long as the tip of the weapon is depressed.
(Clue/definition updated and resubmitted because my partner who is a fencer just reminded me that epee is in fact the one type of fencing that *doesn't* use a lamé...)

(If épée doesn't need accents for this competition, as the competition title indicates, then I will argue that lamé does not either!)
biocuriousgeorgie 2
9552 Rousseau’s philosophical system lacks the principal of Montesquieu’s and Kant’s… is a deadly weapon? (4) "Rousseau’s" - French indicator
"philosophical system" - ÉPISTÉME, properly diacriticized French cognate for “episteme” meaning philosophical system
"lacks" - deletion indicator
"the principal of Montesquieu’s" - M_
"Kant’s is" - IST (German indicator)

ÉPÉE = ÉP(-ist)É(-m)E = def. a deadly weapon?
rpl 1
9542 Protégée's bottom half containing its head, no good sport (4) protégée's bottom half - ÉGÉE
containing its head - ÉG(+P)ÉE
no good - delete G
sport - def
Botaku 0
9560 Extremely French summer overwhelms central government organization of fish guts and accented crosswordese. (4) Extremely - ends
French summer - ÉtÉ
overwhelms - containing
central - middle letter
government organization - ePa
of - {connector}
fish - eEl
guts - middle letter
and - {link}
accented crosswordese - def
dpad 0
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