Gemstone's old, needing polish put back (4)
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2024-08-27
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:
O (old), then LAP (polish) reversed [put back]. SOED: lap – polish with a lap – a rotating disc for cutting or polishing gems or metal. The answer was obvious but I needed to look up ‘lap’ afterwards to understand the wordplay.