I'm surprised to see new bird making for top of dome (7)

Times Cryptic #28646 | 26 Across | 2023-07-04
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

LA (I’m surprised), N (new), TERN (bird). This went in with fingers crossed as I didn’t know La! as an expression of surprise (SOED has it as archaic), nor LANTERN as the top of a dome, although having looked it up later I vaguely remembered meeting it before.

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