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Can anyone help with the Radio Times Christmas cryptic crossword? (self.crossword)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by FourPacketsOfPeanuts to c/crossword

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For the regulars this ought to be easier than your usual broadsheet cryptic, and I believe I've completed it, am just mystified as to how some of the clues are supposed to work..

34a A posh car taking carriers outside department store

_ A _ R _ D _

So for this I had "Harrods". So "department store". The "posh car" is rolls royce giving the RR. But I'm lost as to how the remaining letters on the poster (HAODS) are "carriers". It almost seems like a typo for HANDS, which would make sense, but obviously doesn't give Harrods, or anything else that makes sense

Help? An I missing something or is this a mistake by the setter?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I've got it. A less common = a + the first two letters of common, i.e. a lot less of common! Add the o and you have coal.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hmm, good attempt but you'd still be missing an L if it were that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Damn it, you're right!