Rod Laver say backed to overcome forty love (5)
Independent
Cryptic
#11881
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26 Across
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2024-11-07
Generating...
I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:
A [xl] E (a rod on which wheels are mounted), with ROD (Rod Laver, former tennis player) reversed (backing) replacing the XL (Roman numerals for forty). So the first Rod isn’t ROD but Laver is; a sneaky construction that took me a while to work out.