Made orderly want to receive a top mark (8)
Independent
Cryptic
#12169
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4 Down
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2025-10-09
Generating...
I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:
NEED (want in its older sense of shortage, as in “for want of . . .”), containing (to receive) A TEN (as in “I’d give it a ten” = short version of “ten out of ten” = a top mark).