Novel crossbeam rigged by egg-producer (6,6)

Guardian Cryptic #29795 | 18 Across | 2025-09-09
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

definition: a novel [wiki] by Flaubert “crossbeam” is split into cross//beam, leading to: MAD=”cross” + anagram/”rigged” of (beam)*, plus OVARY=”egg-producer”

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