First the good news...

    All of the entrants for CWC 87 were willing to run CWC88.

Now the bad news...

    Only six people entered.  I hope my words weren't uninspiring
and it was just the holiday season.  I guess I'll never know.  But it
did make my job easier.

The winning clues:

From Don Monson for word 1...

    Sudden and significant miserable autumn is beyond question (7)

From Jacob Bergmann for word 2...

    Unemotional one wears high fashion during sitting (10)

Don Monson is the overall winner and will be posting the words for
CWC88 soon.

Thanks to all who entered.

on to the results and comments ...

Clues for word 1:

    The leap of a mount (7)
(*) Sudden and significant miserable autumn is beyond question (7)
    Quantity, maximum... (not saying without finality) (7) 
    Setter left twee, er, amount (7)
    Emmet University, in Iran's holy city, produces a little energy (7)
    Atom squad Anti-Dump centers (7)

BONUS:
    A bit of energy invested in Chautauquan tumult (7)



I'm a bit surprised to see that no one used an apparently
paradoxical double definition such as 'Kind of a huge leap yet only 
the smallest step'



>From: yfyap@pop.jaring.my (Yap Yok Foo)
>
> The leap of a mount (7)
>
>"The leap" alludes to quantum leap and amount is deliberately 
>written as a mount
>to disquise the definition and to throw the solver off the horse.
>Note : If this qualifies to be called a "punny definition", 
>         please accept my entry as "The leap of a mount ? (7)"

Nice surface but the double definitions are a bit of a leap.
The connection between quantum and "the" leap is a bit tenuous, 
using "kind of a" instead of "the" is probably better but that
makes the surface not so nice...
The second definition would certainly throw the solver off of
the horse, it's kind of an indirect homophonic definition.
I might go for it if there was a homophone indicator.  An
example where this trick would really throw the solver might
be 'a periodic motion' for 'chaos', where one really wants
'aperiodic motion.'  Yap Yok Foo goes a bit too far.
  
>From: dmonson@Direct.CA (Don Monson)
>
> Sudden and significant miserable autumn is beyond question (7)
>
>   Sudden and significant  =   definition (adj. form of quantum)
>   miserable               =   anagram indicator
>   autumn                  ->  UANTUM
>   is beyond               =   placement indicator
>   question                =   Q

Nice surface, it sounds quite ominous.  I can just see it, as the
leaves begin to turn, a weather front moves in with 40 degree 
driving rain and gale force winds... Say, didn't that just happen in
the Northwest US?  Don Monson wins word 1 and CWC87 for his imagery 
and weather forecasting ability.

>From: ab388@freenet.carleton.ca (Jules E. Lafrance)
>
> Quantity, maximum... (not saying without finality) (7) 
>
>Explanation: Definition = "Quantity"
>            Removal indicator: "not"; 
>            to be removed: "saying" = "maxim"
>            Second removal indicator: "without"; 
>            to be removed: "final `ity'",
>                  i.e. final "ity" in "quantity"
>            Remaining letters form solution.

There's quite a few problems here...  The surface really doesn't 
mean anything to me.  The clue should read smoothly and make sense
when considered outside of the crossword context.
Your straight definition is almost the same 
word as the word to be clued, I think they derive from the same
root.  It would be better to choose something much further 
removed.  Your cryptic part then uses the straight definition
as part of a charade to be altered later.  The cryptic and straight
parts should be separate unless you are constructing an &lit where 
the entire clue may be read in both cryptic and straight ways.
Your removal are then indirect.  The solver must find a synonym for
'saying' and realize that finality has to be split in two.  This 
indirectness is generally frowned upon. 

>From: pvr@wg.icl.co.uk (Phil Rose)
>
> Setter left twee, er, amount (7)
>
> Setter               = I
> twee                 = QUAINT
> left                 = QUA(I)NT
> er                   = UM (hesitations)
> amount               = definition

An embarassed dog owner, eh? Nice surface for the UK I expect.  
I'm not familiar with 'twee', but I'll give you the benefit
of the doubt on that one.  The cryptic part probably mades sense 
when you wrote it but not when I solved it.  'Setter' might make 
sense as 'you' or 'phil' or something but not 'I', from this side 
of the clue.

>From: bcs@sc.harris.com (Brian Spollen)
>
> Emmet University, in Iran's holy city, produces a little energy (7)
>
>     "emmet" = "ant"
>     "University" = "U"
>     "in" = inclusion indicator
>     "Iran's holy city" = "Qum"
>     "a little energy" = def.

Surface is a bit choppy with the phrase set off by commas.  Sounds
more like a power plant than a university but I do like the image of
a midwestern university extension in Iran.  Just a personal peeve,
I don't like obscure words ("Qum") typically found only in 
crossword puzzles.

>From: jbergman@bbn.com (Jacob Bergmann)
>
> Atom squad Anti-Dump centers (7)
>
>   Explanation:  CENTERS of  sQUAd  aNTi  dUMp
>
>   'Atom' definition not in the physical sense, but the older 
>    meaning of
>   'indivisible unit'.

Is this some sort of nuclear waste police?  I'm not sure what the 
surface really means. Is an anti-dump center an atom squad HQ?
Why capitalize Anti-Dump?  I like the cryptic construction but 
others might argue that the 'anti-dump' center is 'id' and 'squad' 
center is 'u'.

>From: bcs@sc.harris.com (Brian Spollen)
>Bonus clue for QUANTUM:
>
>A bit of energy invested in Chautauquan tumult (7)
>
>     "a bit of energy" = def.
>     "invested in" = hidden word indicator
>     "ChautauQUAN TUMult" = word-hiding phrase

Chautauquan pretty much gives the hidden word away.


Clues for word 2:
    Routine artwork (10)
    Automatic deduction he can claim (10)
    Absurdly he can claim to be product of machine (10)
    Advantage not being intelligent? (10)
    Robot-like, I put a little heat on the famous sleuth (10)
(*) Unemotional one wears high fashion during sitting (10)

Bonus:
    It comes from mills around Switzerland, a substantial 
    amount of nice clockwork (10)




>From: yfyap@pop.jaring.my (Yap Yok Foo)
>  
> Routine artwork (10)
>
> A simple (and I hope not boring) double definition.

Maybe a bit too simple.  Doesn't do anything for me.

>From: dmonson@Direct.CA (Don Monson)
>
> Automatic deduction he can claim (10)
>
>    Automatic               =   definition
>
>    deduction               =   the process by which the clever solver
>                                will decipher this anagram without having
>                                to rely on an obvious 'pointer' :-)
>
>    he can claim            =   anagram material

Oh-oh.  The dreaded indirect psychic indicator.  It appears 
that since Don can forecast the weather he thinks everyone
else is psychic too ;)  It makes for a really nice surface
but its a little too clever for my tastes.

>From: ab388@freenet.carleton.ca (Jules E. Lafrance)
>
> Absurdly he can claim to be product of machine (10)
>
> Explanation: Definition: "to be product of machine"
>            Anagram indicator: "Absurdly"
>            Anagram fodder: "he can claim".

The surface would read better by expanding the definition to 
'the product of a machine' and not incur the wrath of 
extraneous word foes since the extra words are all part of the
definition. However, I have two problems with your definition.
A loaf of bread could be the product of a machine yet not be,
itself, mechanical.  Once again you used a word in your straight
definition that is really close to the word to be clued.  The
cryptic part is good and flows smoothly but a better definition
is needed.

>From: pvr@wg.icl.co.uk (Phil Rose)
>
> Advantage not being intelligent? (10)
>
> Punny double definition...
> Advantage            = as in MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
>                       the force amplification in a simple machine
> not being intelligent= ie a process that is mechanical, doesn't
>                       require any thought to do.

The basic idea is great here but I think the jump from 
'advantage' to 'mechanical' is a big one.  A clue along the 
same lines which might have won would have been:
Not being intelligent is kind of an advantage? (10)

>From: bcs@sc.harris.com (Brian Spollen)
>
> Robot-like, I put a little heat on the famous sleuth (10)
>
>     "robot-like" = def.
>     "I" = "me"
>     "put ... on" = appendage indicator
>     "a little heat" = "I cal." (one Calorie)
>     "the famous sleuth" = (Charlie) Chan

Somehow, 'robot-like' doesn't really work for me in the surface.
Good cryptic construction. I like the 'I cal' definition.  But is
Charlie Chan really famous nowadays?

>From: jbergman@bbn.com (Jacob Bergmann)
>
> Unemotional one wears high fashion during sitting (10)
> ----------- --- ----- ------------ ------ -------
>    defn.    AN             CHIC            MEAL
>
>   Double container charade, ME(CH(AN)IC)AL
>   'wears' and 'during' are the container signals.
>   CHIC as a noun is fashion jargon.  In the surface, 'sitting'
>   works in the photography-session sense, I hope.

Nice surface.  I can just see some bored model wearing an
outfit that cost more than my car.  Good, clean cryptic
construction.  Jacob Bergmann wins word 2.

>Bonus clue From: jbergman@bbn.com (Jacob Bergmann)
> 
>   It comes from mills around Switzerland, a 
>   ------------------- ------ -----------  - 
>         MEAL          signal     CH       A
>
>        substantial amount of nice clockwork (10)
>        -------------------------- ---------
>                  NIC                defn.
>
>                ME(CH + A + NIC)AL
