Troops drunk; one missing in action abroad (7)
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Cryptic
#11927
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2024-12-31
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:
Troops drunk; one missing in action abroad [LIT (=drunk, inebriated) + I (=one)] in MIA (=missing in action); here “abroad” seems to be suggesting “on the outside” in a container-and-contents clue