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In reversal, Cambridge university involved in messy politics rejects liberal hopeful (10)

MIT rev in (POLITICS-L)*

hopeful also a noun meaning "a promising young person". Ripped from today's unfortunate headlines

Speaking of news

"We’re saved!" Tucker Carlson has just ridden into town (10)

🙃

Confident priest convinced CIA to invest in airport with best fog (8)

Double def - confident + best fog / opti-mist

Pesky russkis unable to see what happening on the ground as the area is always (almost) covered in mist.

[The continuing saga of the US aircraft carrier called Ireland - Trump needs to be told there’s more to trade than the almighty dollar]

@Jono 30. Horton for sure but I'm not sure re attachment to bottle?
Thanks

re jono 30; BRB gives:

Optic® /opˈtik/ noun A device attached to an inverted bottle for measuring alcoholic liquid dispensed

Thanks Buddy. Not in my chambers

Is this a good time to put in a word for my #4….

Thanks Buddy, yes that was the intended reference. I was curious that Chambers shows it as a registered trade mark.
Raffs I saw your earlier reference so avoided drink dispenser and went with bottle attachment!

Jon - I knew you knew 😉 and appreciate your difference.

As someone who has spent so much of my life looking at optics, the thought of the term being unfamiliar never occurred 😁

Raffs, “Optic” came up before and I recall it’s not well known (in the spirits sense) outside the UK.

Theres a whole wiki page on the history here… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_spirits_measure