🪞 Double Definition

The clue has two (or occasionally three) separate meanings that both point to the same answer. Often short and sweet.

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Definition Wordplay Fodder Unhighlighted = indicator or linking word

Quite possibly fortunate (4)

One criticising feature of front door? (7)

Stimulating drink, order for one's chauffeur perhaps? (4-2-2)

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Stimulating drink order for one's chauffeur perhaps

Answer: PICK-ME-UP

Definition: Stimulating drink, order for one's chauffeur perhaps? = PICK-ME-UP

Assembly:

double_definition: PICK-ME-UP

Summary: double definition

Shoots game (5)

Little wriggler eats (4)

Opening discount store (6)

Departed behind schedule (4)

Barely modest lyric poems (4)

Club legend is counting cups (5)

Achieve exam success while away (4)

Clog dance (4)

Refill pot, potentially? (3,2)

Spanish car: you may sit in it (4)

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Spanish car you may sit in it

Answer: SEAT

Definition: Spanish car = SEAT

Wordplay:

you may sit in it = SEAT (synonym)

Assembly:

double_definition: SEAT

Summary: double definition

System command (5)

Proving difficult (7)

Mark swinging regularly (4)

City under feudal tenure (5)

Clever and sweetly pleasing (4)

Soaps after taking hot shower, firstly (7)

A nerd or a kagoule? One of the two there will do! (6)

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A nerd or a kagoule One of the two there will do

Answer: ANORAK

Definition: A nerd = ANORAK

Assembly:

double_definition: ANORAK

Summary: A + N(erd) + OR + K(agoule)

Chief is impatient on and off (4)

Impeach a government, it's said (7)

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