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racoony | 15:00 Fri 21st Mar 2025 | Crosswords
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Please help with parsing of 20 across.Clue is:Still flipping crushing virtue?Sheer recklessness! 8 letters.I have T?M?R?T?I presume the answer is temerity, but how does it parse? Many thanks.

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Temerity - 'yet' (still, flipping, crushing; containing) 'merit' (virtue)
15:02 Fri 21st Mar 2025

Temerity - 'yet' (still, flipping, crushing; containing) 'merit' (virtue)

still = yet

virtue = merit.

te (merity) y (yet is flipping, i.e. backwards)

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Many thanks for your very clear explanation.Much appreciated.

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