Oscar winner Charles's cycling assault (9)

Times Cryptic #28886 | 8 Down | 2024-04-09
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

This is my first opportunity in a blog to try out Shabbo’s advice on ‘cycling’ clues as posted here last Tuesday. Quote: I have been told that when you see “cycling”, you should write the letters of the word in a circle and then start from each letter in turn travelling clockwise until you find the solution. Try it. It works! Many thanks to Shabbo for the tip! The Oscar winner is Charles Laughton, so  LAUGHTON’S (Charles’s) cycling gives us this: Laughton was nominated for ‘Best Actor in a Leading Role’ on three occasions but won the Oscar only once in 1933 for  The Private Life of Henry VIII. The other two nominations were for  Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Witness for the Prosecution (1957).

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