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  • Telegraph 29,740 2021-07-29 21 Acr.

    From mumble@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 29 21:24:56 2021
    Confirm an international match is to be broadcast (6)

    I get “Confirm” and “an international match” but not why “is to be broadcast” seems to mean “embed an extra ‘T’.

    Can anyone help?

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  • From Luciano Ward@21:1/5 to mumble on Fri Jul 30 15:59:07 2021
    On Thursday, 29 July 2021 at 23:24:57 UTC-5, mumble wrote:
    Confirm an international match is to be broadcast (6)

    I get “Confirm” and “an international match” but not why “is to be broadcast” seems to mean “embed an extra ‘T’.

    Can anyone help?

    I would guess that...

    A TEST is a homophone ('is to be broadcast') of ATTEST ('confirm').

    Luciano

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