DM cryptic 30 oct by Whetstone

1st November 2020, 21:23

Clue:
I abandon heart of subject in semi-coherent summing up maybe (10)

Answer: ARITHMETIC

Anyone know why? These are doing my head in.

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1st November 2020, 21:30

Hi Whetstone,

It looks like...

I + "abandon heart of subject" = TH(e)ME inside "semi-coherent" ARTIC(ulate) reversed/"summing up

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1st November 2020, 21:31

Sorry...

ARTIC(ulate) is not reversed and "summing up" is the definition.

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1st November 2020, 21:35

Well done Brendan.
I was trying to remove "I" from a word because it said "I abandon...".
Thanks

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1st November 2020, 21:36

No problem, it was pretty convoluted:-)

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