Your associate has perhaps initially put back bract (8)

Times Cryptic #28573 | 13 Across | 2023-04-10
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

reversal (put back) of YR (your) ALLY H[as] P[erhaps]; a bract (and thus a phyllary too) is ‘a specialized leaf, usually smaller than the foliage leaves, with a single flower or inflorescence growing in its axil’; all clear then…

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