Land deal to smuggle 500 diamonds (6)

Independent Cryptic #12150 | 1 Down | 2025-09-17
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

SALE (commercial deal), containing (smuggling) D (Roman numeral for 500) + D (abbreviation for diamonds, in card games). Land, as a verb = saddle = to encumber with something unwanted, as in “that might land you with a big tax bill”.

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