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pink ? double definition

Thanks Jazzgirl. An odd clue.
Pinking is the noise an engine makes when its knocking but- plant?

hi tombola
Pinks (flowers) also called Dianthus. They are similar to carnations

Still can't get the other one.
Wiping out memory, spare article that’s saved (7)
l-t-e-n.
spare could be lean around a that is ie
so letiean?

Lethean spare + the

sorry, lean + the

Of course Jazzgirl. Thanks. I still don't know the word lethean

Jazzgirl. What have you got for 25a in the times cryptic please?

If you drink from the River Lethe in the underworld, you forget everything.
Someone wrote "No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist / Wolf's bane ..for its poisonous wine." OK. Keats Ode to Melancholy.
p@ may well accuse me of showing off. Guilty.