Provoke first of revellers to punch bouncer? (7)

Independent Cryptic #12270 | 27 Across | 2026-02-04
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

First letter of R [evellers], inserted into (punching) TIGGER (a character in A A Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories, known for being bouncy). For the surface, has Hoskins been reading recent stories about the England men’s cricket team? Trigger, as a verb = provoke = cause an adverse reaction.

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