Proposition English troops to infiltrate enemy (7)

Times Cryptic #29240 | 27 Across | 2025-05-27
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

E (English) + OR (troops) contained by [to infiltrate] THEM (enemy). Maybe ‘enemy’ is a bit strong, but if you’re not one of us you’re one of them and alien to our group. I lost time here on the parsing, thinking that ‘troops’ accounted for RE.

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