Star of Foreign Office beat up Utah revolutionary (9)
I believe the answer is:
fomalhaut
'star' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'foreign office beat up utah revolutionary' is the wordplay.
'foreign office' becomes 'FO' (abbreviation).
'beat' becomes 'lam' (I've seen this in other clues).
'up' says the letters should be written backwards (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'revolutionary' indicates anagramming the letters.
'lam' reversed gives 'mal'.
'utah' is an anagram of 'haut'.
'fo'+'mal'+'haut'='FOMALHAUT'
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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