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This is driving the wife and I nuts. It should be so easy BUT......
The clue reads 'The way a sailor puts up beds'.
We have the following **R*T*
and have come up with BERATE and SURETY but dont really know why either of them should fit.
Any thoughts?

Strata?

Thanks Rusty, your thinking is?

Way is ST, street, A sailor is a tar backwards, giving strata.

Thanks sounds good. Cant get over the 'beds' part tho

Strata is the plural of stratum, meaning a bed of sedimentary rock.

Brilliant! You should go on Eggheads! (We are new to cryptic clues)

Keep at it, we all had to start somewhere! Plenty willing helpers on here, if you need a help or an explanation.