Must be adjacent to Epaulets. 4-6, 5-5, 5-4.
Not connected to Band, so Mommy is irrelevant. Not 5-4
My feeling would be not Identical, so 5-5. But I could be persuaded otherwise.
Is there any mileage in the fact it’s shoulder and not shoulders?
I think I’m in the 5-5 camp
hmm - I think 5-5 because of the individual shoulder point (though when I was clue giver i would not have been that wise!)
I’m split between 5-5 and 5-4, so I’m happy to go with what looks like the prevailing opinion of Epaulets Only at 5-5.
Is 5-5 the final answer then?
I believe so.
5-5 is empty
Next clue: “Shrug”
4-6 would include identical and epaulets. Hmmmm. O could make very vague cases for both of those words. Hmm.
Sorry, I meant the three locations that only border shoulder: 5-6, 6-5 and 6-4.
I agree with Shoulder Only. Do we think there is an advantage to any of the spaces - e.g. do we want to stay away from the edge and pick 6-4, or do we want to avoid surrounding tiles with words and pick 6-5?
I would go for 6-4 and I had worked out the logic, but I have forgotten why in the time it took me to start typing.
I think it is cos 6-5 would mean a joint 6-5 shoulder word could be either 5-6 or 6-4 so choosing 6-4 now removes that quandary …
Building from 6-5 is either with shoulder (2) or not (1). Ditto 5-6.
6-4 offers a quad-clue (5-4), or with Mommy (6-3), or with Shoulder (6-5). Which is three options rather than 2, which I think is good…
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I think we had reached consensus on assigning Shrug to 6-4?
I’m happy with that.
Okay, 6-4 is a Trap! Ouch! 
Next hint: Roadside
EDIT: Sadly, I thought I had posted this hours ago. I just got distracted and never made the last click.
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I can only think 5-6
Does anyone else have any opinions?