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From duchy, misbehaving youth receives exclusion order (7) b-a-a-t . Is this blatant? but why?

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fool holds pen straight? very much the opposite (9). t-i-t-e-t

BRABANT? (Duchy in the Low Countries, brat around ban)

TWISTIEST?

'stie' is alternative spelling of 'sty'

I didn't know that, rambler - thanks for the explanation.

When I parsed it I looked it up in Chambers!

It's 'sties' in the middle of 'twistiest' - so I don't think it really matters whether we see it as the plural of 'sty' or the plural of 'stie'.

Hi, malone, the clue reads 'pen straight'?

Thanks, I saw that - but I couldn't work out where the second 's' (twi stie (s) t) came from. My subconscious must have decided that it was really 'pens'.Sorry!

I took the S to be abb. of 'straight' but I can't see it in Chambers so it may be wrong parsing.