Misbe'ave lacking character after function (4)

Independent Cryptic #12251 | 18 Across | 2026-01-13
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

SIN (as a verb = misbehave), with H (the character lacking in Cockney pronunciations of words such as “misbe’ave”) after it. Mathematical notation for the “hyperbolic sine” function. It’s a long time since I studied pure maths and I won’t attempt to explain what this means; I suspect most readers of this blog won’t want a long discussion on the subject. This Wikipedia article may or may not help.

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