Got reminder to take medicine? (8)
20A — Got reminder to take medicine? (8) — PROCURED
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Definition
Definition found: 'Got' — 'Got' here is the past tense of a verb of obtaining — definitions sit at the very start or very end of the clue, never in the middle.'Got' here is the past tense of a verb of obtaining — definitions sit at the very start or very end of the clue, never in the middle.
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Indicator
Indicator found: 'take''take' is one of the family of container indicators (with takes, holds, accepts, embraces, grips) — it signals that one set of letters sits inside another.
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Operation
'take' signals a container operation
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Fodder
Fodder: 'reminder medicine?'
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Synonym
Synonyms spotted: 'reminder' → PRODA 'reminder' or nudge is a short stock equivalence — the clue word almost never sits in the answer as-is, it points at another short word with the same sense.
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Synonym
Synonyms spotted: 'medicine?' → CURE'medicine' in cryptics is usually a four-letter remedy — the clue word is a pointer, not a literal.
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Assembly
PROD + CURE = PRO(CURE)D