Time to fight? (5)

Guardian Cryptic #29184 | 13 Across | 2023-09-25
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A rather loose cryptic definition – a play on time being the enemy, which has several times raised discussion here; this time, I decided to consult Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and under ‘Enemy’ I found ‘ How goes the enemy? see under HOW ‘ – but there was no such entry there! See here for an explanation

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