Sorry for reflecting on American who went to hell and back (7)

Independent Cryptic #12145 | 18 Down | 2025-09-11
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

EH (eh? = sorry? = expression meaning “please repeat what you just said”) + PRO (for = in favour of), all reversed (reflecting), then US (abbreviation for United States = American). In Greek mythology: after Orpheus’s wife Eurydice died, he went to the underworld in a heroic but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to get her back.

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