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Good afternoon to you all, from a damp a dreadful Kent, on this miserable Sunday. Can anyone help/hint with 12a) Head of State leaving wine district very sober (5). I have so far... G _ A _ E. Now, it could be GRAPE with the wine connection, or GLADE (no connection that I can fathom) either way I can not link these up. Dazed and confuzzed.
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Without giving too much away - think of a wine region in Bordeaux where Sauternes comes from.

Head of state -s leaving wine district Graves - "Grave" - very sober

Graves mnius the S - Grave

Thank you... 'GRAVE' it is then. However, how does that fit in with Head of State ? Lost still.

as AB said - Graves - minus S - head of State = grave