Initially nervous individual seals off brownish leak (9)

Independent Cryptic #12229 | 2 Down | 2025-12-18
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

UMBER (=brownish) in [ N <ervous> (“initially” means first letter only) + ONE (=individual)]; to go for a number one is to go for a wee, take a leak !

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