Good person by road, eating fish, choked (9)
27A — Good person by road, eating fish, choked (9) — STRANGLED
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Definition
Definition found: 'choked' — The straight definition sits at one end of the clue, never the middle. Which end reads as a plain past-tense synonym for the answer?The straight definition sits at one end of the clue, never the middle. Which end reads as a plain past-tense synonym for the answer?
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Indicator
Indicator found: 'eating'A word about swallowing or taking something in usually means one piece is wrapped around another.
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Operation
'eating' signals a container operation
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Fodder
Fodder: 'road, fish,'
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Abbreviation
Abbreviations spotted: 'Good person' → STA title of holiness opens the answer as a short tag before anything is wrapped.
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Abbreviation
Abbreviations spotted: 'road,' → RDBuild the outer shell first — the short form of the thoroughfare.
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Synonym
Synonyms spotted: 'fish,' → ANGLEThe inner piece comes from the fishing verb, then drops inside the shell.
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Assembly
ST + (RD + ANGLE > R(ANGLE)D) = STRANGLED