Midlander starting to bet before card game announced (7)

Guardian Cryptic #28998 | 5 Across | 2023-02-20
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A charade of B (‘starting to B et’) plus RUMMIE, sounding like (‘announced’) RUMMY (‘card game’).

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