American guy crosses river and leaves (5)

Independent Cryptic #11841 | 18 Across | 2024-09-21
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

We had to check this one – it seems to be CHAD (American guy) round or ‘crossing’ R (river) – we had always thought that Mr Chad (the ‘wot no’….cartoon character from WW11) was British, but apparently he might have been brought over from America by GIs.

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