Dog lead restraining it? No lead to pulltire out bagging mess up (3,4,7)

Guardian Cryptic #29827 | 1 Across | 2025-10-16
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A charade of PITB, an envelope (‘restraining’) of ‘it’ in PB (chemical symbol, ‘lead’) plus ‘[p]ull’ minus its first letter (‘no lead’ – different pronounciation) plus TERRIER, an envelope (‘bagging’) of ERR (‘ness up’) in TIER, an anagram (‘pout’) of ‘tire’.

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