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Times Jumbo Cryptic 1257

goodgoalie | 12:06 Sat 01st Apr 2017 | Crosswords

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Girl wreathed in lilac cultivated from an earlier time (9)
The answer is CLASSICAL: the wordplay seems to be lass (girl) with an anagram of 'lilac' round it - but CICAL isn't an anagram of lilac. Or am I missing something?

Jamboree

Guardian Prize Crossword 27,160 Saturday April 1St 2017

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aelmpvw

cass (girls name) + lilac?

dannyk13

Probably a setter's error.

goodgoalie

Question Author

Possibly, but 'wreathed' should be telling us to put something round something, I reckon, not mix up CASS and LILAC

dannyk13

Or maybe not AEl might have it,

Lie-in King

I also thought it an error.

Number1Bootle

A mistake by the setter.

Number1Bootle

And can anyone parse 40ac for me, while we're at it? "Break even during different sales initially (11)". Answer must be 'elevenses', but here too I suspect there's a mistake on the setter's part...

goodgoalie

Question Author

Hi, Number 1. Agree it's ELEVENSES: put 'even' inside ELSE (different), then add S (sales initially)

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