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Clue of the day · Thursday 8 October 2026

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Clue of the day · Independent 12481 · Coot · 1 across · charade

Native Australian, reportedly, may fish with spectacles (8)

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Sound-alike (reportedly) of CAN (may, as in “you can go now”) + GAR (a fish) + OO (spectacles = slang for two zeros; especially in cricket, where “a pair” = short for a pair of spectacles = out for a score of zero in both innings of a match). An animal native to Australia.

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