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I can't get my head round the last clue of today's cryptic crossword in The Sunday Times so I am appealing for help.

25 Across "Yen to drop old fashioned underwear is leading to arrest (6)"

I have S-A-I-. I am lead to think the solution is STASIS which my dictionary says means arrest of the blood.

If it is STASIS, why and how does it fit the clue? If it isn't STASIS, what is it and why?

Over to the brains of The Crossword Club Forum

Sta(y)s were corsets + is which is in the clue.

you drop the y from yen + add 'is'....getting stasis

stays - old fashioned underwear

Thanks, Chald. Now I see it! I don't like to put answers into a grid unless I knows exactly why. Now I will put STASIS into my grid with my head held high.

Finished!

... and thank you, Grace.

Well done!