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"Re-order" is neither in Bradford's nor in Collins Million Word X-wd Dict. Did those who got "recorder" find "re-order" first in their heads? I doubt it! The words "shuffle" & "out" were both delightfully ambiguous anyway! Excuses, excuses.................

i didn't get Recorder but when i google Reorder (with or without the hyphen) i get definitions that fit. i rarely use Dics in book form anymore.
good clue i thought as were they all. Knock it off was my fave.

Thanks for your efforts Jolan. I got off to a flying start (3&4) only to be thwarted yet again. Was wrong on 1 and 2 and didn't see 5 at all. Oh well there's always next week.

Thanks again

Andy

A final goodight and thank you to Andyc, Trevor, GK and Ari, I couldn't find the synonym either. It just came from my head. On reflection, they should be synonyms.

See you next week. John

To shuffle cards (for example) is certainly to reorder them. I don't see a problem with your clue, Jolan.

Jolan -- just in case you ever read this: I wasn't in any way criticizing your use of "re-order" as a synonym for "shuffle" -- it obviously is. It was just that there is an omission in the two old-fashioned books I mentioned (one inherited from my brother in London, who was an avid & very successful solver: I could only carry 1 dictionary prize away from his flat when he died because I didn't have the car with me from Germany) -- and then presumably I overlooked it in the lists I looked at briefly online. My mistake had much more to do with the fact that I wasn't looking for a word to describe a video "appliance" or whatever we'd call things like recorders (you notice how out-of-touch I'm getting here!). And apart from that (as I've already noted) the end of your clue was magnificently mislea

-ding (DAMN!!!) ! So in other words please just keep up the good work!
btw I just looked at how the game began just before I appeared on the scene (other thread) --- and now the week wouldn't feel complete without "Clueless" AND your regular 5! Once again, congratulations & a big Thank-you all round!
gk

GK: I love how your post was cut off after "the end of your clue was magnificently mislea". On its own, "mislea" looks like an AB clue.
I agree with you regarding Jolan's misdirection; one instinctively looks for anagram fodder. He's a tricky one.