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Clued In #313 | Everybody wins in cryptic crosswords!

Mihir Balantrapu  |  25 May 2021

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The Hindu Cryptic #13257 | Dr. X | 12 AcrossPerhaps I too can win award for business (10)CLUE:Clue explained:

: anagram, insertionClue types

: businessDefinition

:AnswerOCCUPATION

We need a 10-letter word here that means ‘business’.

‘Perhaps’ is an anagram indicator. An anagram of ‘I too can’ gives us OCATION.

Another word for ‘award’ is CUP.

‘Win’ here is acting as an insertion indicator. It is in the plural declension because Dr. X is referring to the of the anagram as opposed to the singular anagram itself. We need to put CUP inside OCATION.letters

And that would spell OCCUPATION, another word for ‘business’!