Millions enthralled by new poem on Wodehouse (English name adopted by author) (10)

Independent Cryptic #12134 | 14 Down | 2025-08-29
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

M (millions) inside or ‘enthralled by’ N (new) ODE (poem) + PLUM (P G Wodehouse’s nickname) E (English). This had us stumped – it had to be the right answer but we had no idea why. When writing up the blog Joyce googled ‘Wodehouse plum’ and all was revealed.

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