Zip has caught a collar (4)

Guardian Cryptic #29641 | 12 Across | 2025-03-13
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

an insertion: NIL (zip) around A (caught A) – and to NAIL someone is another slang term for catching them when they are doing something wrong, as is collar – the police have been trying to nail/collar that gang for months.

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