Back in Birmingham's first beat club (7)

Times Cryptic #29257 | 14 Across | 2025-06-16
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

IN reversed B~ LICK (beat, as in ‘the Proteas licked the Green and Yellows’); back in the day before, very sensibly, someone named them the 1-9 irons, wedge etc, we had all sorts of weird clubs, including the niblick and the mashie niblick.

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