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No-frills razor supplier subsumes a second (5)

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basic

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'no-frills' is the definition.
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'razor supplier subsumes a second' is the wordplay.
'razor supplier' becomes 'bic' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'subsumes' indicates putting letters inside (subsume can mean to absorb).
'second' becomes 's' (common abbreviation).
'a'+'s'='as'
'bic' going around 'as' is 'BASIC'.

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(Other definitions for basic that I've seen before include "Fundamental instruction's" , "Unembellished" , "Fundamental, underlying" , "Forming a foundation" , "Simple form of language" .)

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