Members of Balliol initially supporting gaudy meet for a purpose (5,3)

Times Cryptic #29258 | 8 Down | 2025-06-17
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

FLASH (gaudy), M{embers} + O{f} + B{alliol} [initially]. I’m not sure of the grammar here. If ‘flash mob’ can be used as a verb, that works, or perhaps ‘meet’ is as a noun as it is e.g. in hunting.

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