Scales tipped against popular government leader taking a rest (8)
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2021-02-19
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (tipped, in a down clue) of PEELS (scales) + IN (popular) + G[overnment] I wondered about this but, for ‘scale’, Chambers has ‘to come off in thin layers or flakes’