From the London Drinker crossword Dec/Jan 2015/16:
25 across: Caught behind, disheartened, walked off [6]
_ E_A_T
I’m pretty sure the answer is DEPART but why?
Many thanks
I think I was there, prudie- I remember using CGE as an abbreviation for carriage in parsing something last week- I found it on a list of abbreviations somewhere.