Kinky bottomless American sweetheart you called honey bear (8)

Independent Cryptic #11650 | 16 Down | 2024-02-12
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I had KANGAROO in here because I couldn’t make head or tail of the parsing, but then the perimeter nina told me that couldn’t be right. A charade of KINK[Y], A, JO and U, aural wordplay (‘called’) for ‘you’. The Scots Language centre tells me that JO is a Scots variant of ‘joy’, and can mean a sweetheart or lover, or be a term of endearment akin to ‘dear’ or ‘darling’. I know why the setter has had to use this word (naff all else fits) but in my opinion this is obscure and the Scots dialect word is rather unfair.

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