Axe penetrates once he's splintered shield (10)

Times Cryptic #29224 | 20 Across | 2025-05-08
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

CUT(axe) inside an anagram of ONCE,HE’S. One of the words burned into my memory by its use in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, where it is one of the components of a game of Eschaton.

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