It's a trigger to thrash judge according to Spooner (8)
Independent
Cryptic
#11617
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9 Across
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2024-01-04
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:
Spoonerism (for some people’s pronunciation, depending on how they pronounce WH) of WHIP (thrash) TRIER (one who tries a case = judge).