I object to Old Bill initially taking wife in field (6)

Guardian Cryptic #29707 | 2 Down | 2025-05-29
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A charade of ME (‘I object’ – object grammatically) plus AD (‘Bill’) plus O (‘old’) plus W (‘wife’). ‘Initially’ is not its usual cryptic use, but indicates that AD comes before O.

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