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Dt Cryptic 29272

Doona1907 | 17:19 Wed 29th Jan 2020 | Crosswords

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I am obviously being very thick but I can’t parse my bung-in for 16d - opening protected by covers and traps (4,5) - cake holes but why?

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Cakes (covers) round Hole (opening)

Cake holes (traps; mouths) - 'hole' (protected by) 'cakes' (covers)

Trap is slang for mouth

The human mouth is sometimes called a cake hole.

aelmpvw

cake = covers
holes = traps

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Thank you everyone. I had sussed cake hole as mouth but overlooked trap and not sure about cakes = covers.

fiction-factory

caked in mud - covered in mud
The verb to cake/to cover
He cakes/covers
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