Excite a single scoundrel, taking Sierra for spin (4,2,4,4)

Guardian Cryptic #29259 | 27 Across | 2023-12-21
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A charade of TURN ON (‘excite’) plus ONE (‘a’) plus S (‘single’) plus HEEL (‘scoundrel’). It works better when I read the whole clue. The S is NATO alphabet ‘Sierra’, of course; thanks to Tim C @4, the first to point this out.

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