Street trader's period plugging a type of eel containing bone (12)
Times
Cryptic
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18 Across
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2024-11-19
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:
TERM (period) contained by [plugging] CONGER (a type of eel) itself containing OS (bone). A rarely-sighted double parcel / containment clue in a Times puzzle! I’ve learned today that ‘os’ is the singular of the more familiar ‘ossa’ meaning ‘bones’.