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Answer to the clue below is WATER BISCUITS, but why?

Dual purpose stores for lifeboats? (5,8)

Thanks

I can't help, Whetstone, but what a strange clue! I looked it up online and it was first used 17 or 18 years ago.

Thanks anyway.
Looks like The Guardian have used it before, too (see 1a)
https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/22112

Lifeboats are stored in water
Biscuits are/were included in the survival kit carried by lifeboats [in their stores] - [famously expensive biscuit from Titanic lifeboat has a zillion references]

Maybe