To relinquish Government control of tax is blocked by a lot of peers? On the contrary (9)
Independent
Cryptic
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2025-12-05
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:
PRIE s (peers into ) excluding the final letter S (a lot of) containing (blocked by) ( VAT [value-added tax ] + IS ) – this is the opposite [on the contrary] of the wordplay set out in the clue that would lead to VAT ( PRIE ) IS