Notices Fleet Street boss introducing a thousand retrograde working areas (8)
1A — Notices Fleet Street boss introducing a thousand retrograde working areas (8) — DESKTOPS
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Definition
Definition found: 'working areas' — The straight definition sits at one end — here two words at the very end name a kind of surface you work at.The straight definition sits at one end — here two words at the very end name a kind of surface you work at.
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Indicator
Indicator found: 'introducing'A word like 'introducing' between two pieces is a steer that one thing is being slipped inside another.
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Operation
'introducing' signals a container operation
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Fodder
Fodder: 'Notices Fleet Street boss a thousand'
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Indicator
Indicator found: 'retrograde''retrograde' means going backwards — once the wordplay is built, read the whole thing the other way.
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Operation
'retrograde' signals a reversal operation
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Fodder
Fodder: 'Notices Fleet Street boss a thousand'
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Synonym
Synonyms spotted: 'Notices' → SPOTSBuild the shell first — a verb for noticing things.
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Synonym
Synonyms spotted: 'Fleet Street boss' → EDThe newspaper boss adds a short tag straight onto the end of that shell.
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Abbreviation
Abbreviations spotted: 'thousand' → KThe 'thousand' letter slips inside the shell you just built.
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Assembly
(SPOTSED + K > SPOT(K)SED) > SPOTKSED = DESKTOPS