Makes purchases when inebriated? They’ll be so dirty (4-6)

Guardian Cryptic #29939 | 4 Down | 2026-02-25 flower
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A charade of SHOPS (‘makes purchases’) plus OILED (yet another word for ‘inebriated’) – perhaps best treated as the phrase SHOPS OILED

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