Dodgy action - runs cocaine in - or other drug? (8)

Independent Cryptic #11774 | 12 Across | 2024-07-05
Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Joyce quickly entered NICOTINE before realising that the anagram didn’t work – it’s actually an anagram (‘dodgy’) of ACTION, R (runs) and C (cocaine). Thanks Hovis for the correct parsing here – we had missed ‘in’ (the inclusion indicator).

Back to puzzle
Visit Independent's puzzle site →