Wise saint loses heart eating pastry (7)

17D — Wise saint loses heart eating pastry (7) — SAPIENT

• Definition
  Definition found: 'Wise'
• Indicator
  Indicator found: 'loses heart'
• Operation
  'loses heart' signals a deletion operation
• Fodder
  Fodder: 'saint'
• Indicator
  Indicator found: 'eating'
• Operation
  'eating' signals a container operation
• Fodder
  Fodder: 'saint pastry'
• Assembly
  (> SAINT - I > SANT) + PIE = SA(PIE)NT

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