Stylish Poulter drawn into short shot - this could go in fountain (9)

Independent Cryptic #11952 | 10 Across | 2025-01-29
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

IN (stylish) IAN (Poulter as in Ian Poulter the golfer) inside or ‘into’ DINK (short shot in golf). Joyce guessed this one but thought that Ian Poulter would be a footballer. After checking DINK in Chambers, it made sense that Bard used a golfer named Ian. For those young solvers who have never owned a ‘fountain pen’ it was filled with liquid ink.

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