Micro 9: "Weak vocal performance heard at end of opera?"

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• catachresis constructor · 2024-01-03T07:18:05.446Z

  Thank you, as always, for your kind attention. My intuition is that this one is a toughie, and that the placement of the "double feature" is less than ideal; please do let me know if you have strong opinions either way.

  1A + 5A: "Covert operatives"; S ("second") + anag. ("confusion") STAGERECENT

  4A: "Variety of tea?"; substring of ("what's in") HERBALeful

  1D: "Weak vocal performance?" (schwa is often called a "weak vowel"); "heard at end of opera" (i.e. the final phoneme in /ɒp.rə/ "opera")

  2D: "Radiologist"; I ("leading innovation") in ("in") CURE ("medication")

  3D: "Order"; CANE backwards ("staff back") + T ("to commencement"; i.e. the commencement of "to")

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• Oliver Hardy 🤓2:33 · 2024-01-03T10:29:01.836Z

  Ooooh! I loved this one, especially 2D - the surface reading and wordplay matched the definition. A clue to be proud of!

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• ObscureFox 🤓1:51 · 2024-01-03T14:42:13.654Z

  Fun, thanks for sharing!

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• Jake A 🤓2:47 · 2024-01-03T16:32:52.625Z

  Really nice!

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• merlinnimue 🤓3:44 · 2024-01-03T18:34:28.738Z

  Thanks, as ever I bow to all you much higher intellects

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• JWords 🤓2:22 · 2024-01-03T20:10:01.660Z

  Great stuff, big fan of 1D!

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