Score for nine is accepted by Countdown host: UNWITTING (4,3,5)

Independent Cryptic #11737 | 27 Across | 2024-05-23
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

NONET (a piece of music written for nine players = a score for nine), then IS contained in (accepted by) HEWER (Nick Hewer, former host of the Channel 4 game show Countdown ). For the surface, part of the game involves making the longest possible valid word from a selection of nine letters.

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