Q. What is the birthstone for October?

Fish bar cut sandwiches (6)

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Fish
bar cut sandwiches (6)

This hint shows straight definition and cryptic wordplay parts and helps you as the solver to understand how the clue is constructed. There may be only straight definitions if the clue is a multiple definition type, or cryptic wordplays if the clue is a cryptic definition type, where the clue is usually a play on words, puns, or uses misleading homonyms in its surface reading.

Fish
definition
bar
cut
[sandwiches]
around

This hint breaks down the clue further showing the different cryptic indicators used and which parts they act upon within the clue. Various things are indicated as follows:

Link Word Synonym Example of Type of Anagrammed Hidden Selection Homophone Reversed

M __ N __ O __

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minnow

Very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams

This is the solution to the cryptic crossword clue : Fish bar cut sandwiches (6). Look below for an explanation to help you as the cryptic crossword solver understand it.

This is the explanation to the solution to the clue to help you understand how the answer was arrived at.

Fish
definition
MINNOW
bar
INN
cut
MOW
[sandwiches]
around

A [bar] is a common name for a pub or INN in the UK. [Cut] is a synonym for MOW which [sandwiches] goes around/outside the rest of the wordplay to give a type of fish.

M(INN)OW



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