Stop being a TV viewer's plaything (4-2-3-3)

Guardian Cryptic #29128 | 1 Across | 2023-07-21
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

'jack in the box' could mean "Stop being a TV viewer" ('jack in' meaning to quit or abandon something, and 'the box' as slang for TV) the ' s in "viewer' s " indicates [wordplay] i s [definition], rather than a possessive

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