Misfortune of Spooner's boy, young tearaway? (3,4)
Times
Cryptic
#28678
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5 Across
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2023-08-10
Generating...
I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:
Reverse the initial characters of LAD (boy) and BUCK (tearaway). For those who are unaware, Rev William Spooner was famous for transposing the initial letters of word pairs, with hilarious results, occasionally.