Mortice plugged by centre of key turns fast (8)
Guardian
Cryptic
#29514
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28 Across
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2024-10-15
Generating...
I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘turns’) of ‘mortice’ plus E (‘centre of k E y’). ‘Plugged by’ suggests an envelope, which it is, but with ‘turns’, placed where it is, ‘plugged by’ is unnecessary for the wordplay.