Old unpleasant smell with cheese and seaweed in the wind? (4,6)
I believe the answer is:
oboe d'amore
'the wind?' is the definition.
(oboe d'amore is a kind of wind)
'old unpleasant smell with cheese and seaweed' is the wordplay.
'old' becomes 'o' (common abbreviation eg in OE for Old English).
'unpleasant smell' becomes 'bo' (informal abbreviation for body odour).
'with cheese' becomes 'edam' (Edam is an example. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'seaweed' becomes 'ore' (I've seen this in other clues).
'o'+'bo'+'edam'+'ore'='OBOE DAMORE'
'in' is the link.
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