So a plant's unexpectedly situated behind a hooter (9)
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2025-03-04
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:
Anagram [unexpectedly] of SO A PLANT’S. ‘Hooter’ is slang for the nose. According to SOED this dates from the mid 20th century and I wonder if it was coined by Galton & Simpson in the 1950s when they started writing for Tony Hancock, as that’s where I first heard it.