Cheap wine not opened by thoughtful lady on vacation (13)

Independent Cryptic #1839 | 14 Across | 2025-05-25
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Charade of INE (wINE not opened) + X (by) + PENSIVE + LY (LadY on vacation). It’s very sly to use what looks like an adjective to define an adverb, but a phrase like “I bought it cheap” would seem to bear it out

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