Accepting the rebuke for having taken the wrong seat? (8,9)
I believe the answer is:
standing corrected
'wrong seat?' is the definition.
The definition suggests an adjective which matches the answer.
'accepting the rebuke for having taken' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is present in the answer.
'rebuke' could be 'correct' (correcting is a kind of rebuking) and 'correct' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'the' is the link.
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I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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