Sailor's hat boy and I found in lake (9)

Times Cryptic #28778 | 12 Across | 2023-12-05
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

PAUL (boy) + I contained by [found in] TARN (mountain lake). I haven’t checked the whole archive but TARPAULIN as a hat has come up at least once previously, in a 15×15 in December 2019. On that occasion it was defined simply as ‘old hat’ but the clue used ‘sailor’ in the wordplay to provide TAR. I didn’t know it then either but as with today’s clue the answer was easy to construct.

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