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16D: Worldwide Anglo- Dutch company sacks the French on half pay (9)

I've put 'Universal', but apart from universal= worldwide, I just don't get it?

Please can someone explain?

uni[le]ver? and a four letter word for pay was all i could think of.

I must confess that I had to go to 15 squared to get this one explained too, elle. This is what was there:

Hmm. The ‘Anglo-Dutch company’ is UNILEVER. Take LE for one of the French words for ‘the’ out of that and you’ve got UNIVER. Then put SAL for half of the letters of SAL[ARY] on the end of that and you’ve got a word meaning ‘worldwide’.

Anglo Dutch Company - Unilever drop Le (the in French) add Sal (half of salary)

Awww too late, and I did it in my head. :-)

make that a 6 letter word for pay.

Sorry and congrats, mamya.

Thank you, Chris and Mamya - I would never have got that in a million years!

Trev, I think my vocabulary must need extending.......!