Scientific study of scalp thus prodding nit (12)

Guardian Cryptic #29019 | 1 Across | 2023-03-16
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

An envelope (‘prodding’) of TROPHY (‘scalp’) plus SIC (indicating an error copied from a source, not an error in the copying, ‘so’) in ASS (‘nit’).

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