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Mountainjoe | 14:39 Sat 09th May 2020 | Crosswords
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1a Spiteful as the American elite? (7) ?A???S?
2d ... as a pikestaff left in ar*e (5) ??A?N

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2d.Plain
(as) P-l-ain (as a pikestaff)
1a.Waspish
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Thank you very much.
I had already worked out the WASPISH answer for 1a as 'spiteful' but the rest of the clue makes no sense to me. For a while, I had 'the American' resolving to USS, but that only gave me BAGPUSS as an option. Bagpuss is the definitive antithesis to spiteful, so that didn't work at all!
WASP = White Anglo Saxon Protestant - the American so-called elite
WASP- white anglo saxon protestants
so WASPish as in WASPlike
White Anglo Saxon Protestant? Wow, no wonder I found the clue hard. I didn't even know that was a 'thing'. Thanks for that. Learned something!

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