It seems I can’t count, either.
Umbrella.
Well done. Now post a cryptic clue of your own (as noted above, this can be more challenging than solving the clue in the first place).
It’s said So. Cal. hounds play ball but rarely bark. (7)
Ok, I realize I f’ed up again on my clue. I defer my turn back to Prof. Pepperwinkle and I’m going to sit out and watch until I get a better handle on how to play this game.
All right.
I am all about backward alpaca. (5)
Llama (backwards am all)
Furious, triggering my auxiliary defences (3)
Mad (initialism)
+++++
No teddies dancing???!!!??? It HAS to happen! (8)
No teddies dancing???!!!??? It HAS to happen! (8)
DESTINED (N + TEDDIES anagram)
+++++
Mystical Isle weeds produce a white flower (9)
EDELWEISS (isle + weeds anagram)
Circulate magazine (5)
Issue (double definition)
Use tangled shirt as pastry ingredient (4)
Use tangled shirt as pastry ingredient (4)
SUET [USE (anagram) + T(shirt)]
+++++
Language study animated, yet gloomy (8)
Language study animated, yet gloomy (9)
Sorry. I cannot count. 
Etymology (yet + gloomy anagram)
Doctor (grin), the youth center is north of the environmentalist (12)
Doctor (grin), the youth center is north of the environmentalist (12)
GYNECOLOGIST (G + Y + N + ECOLOGIST)
+++++
European city squashes tub snail (8)
ISTANBUL (tub snail anagram)
Crime scene evidence in dispatch (8)
BULLETIN (bullet + in)
Dye held within? Dig out. (6)
INDIGO (container)
Whiskered Billy’s evil end (6)
Whiskered Billy’s evil end (6)
GOATEE (GOAT + E + E)
+++++
Donkey’s disfigured eye and/or eyelid (6)
EEYORE [eye anagram + or + e (lid of eyelid)]
Reminiscent of redesign of observance (8)