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FERLINGHETTI

American beat poet, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lawrence-ferlinghetti

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Border area in chaos from withdraw of offering (6)

Thanks to all who entered this week’s challenge.

Plenty of ingenious entries.

I liked Darla@26’s short drummer and buddy@4’s foreigner. I also liked the iron/ring clues: Chrise@2 geeker@3, jono@8, sam73@30, fieryjack@32.

Paul@19 and Aristophanes@17 both have great surface readings. Ginge@7 Centrigrade to Fahrenheit is a clever clue which took me a while to get. I also liked the conciseness of Simplesimon@15 and Bacchanal@24.

However, my choice is tyke51@14 with:

Initially finger raised in normally genteel Edinburgh outskirts? (6)

I thought choosing finger and Edinburgh in the acrostic merited the first prize. Congratulations tyke, here are your prizes…

https://youtu.be/3FmXpOiIK8E?si=16-vmG_xfyEo6CW8

https://youtube.com/shorts/j7hq1YT_nkI?si=j2CUmUF8iHndNqc6

https://youtu.be/Rpnlxanrj98?si=9qD0C-524xLRTPFg

Congrats tyke - lovely clue! Thanks amej, and for the mention.

Congrats, tyke. Thanks, amej.

PR coming anon

Nice xlue Tyke! Cheers Amej and like appreciated.

Congrats Tyke and thanks Amej