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Last one, 25 across, Take on insurance for independent Japanese fighters, RO?I?S

Ronins, Samurai/Japanese fighters. R - Take, +On+Ins/insurance.

Thanks Malone, but I don't understand R for Take?

"Take" for R, abbreviation of the Latin word recipe, meaning "take".


I have ever come across this before. Wonder what else am missing!

insert missing n

R for 'take' has popped up in a few recent crosswords. It's in Chambers, under 'r' - 'recipe (in italics), Latin, take'. If you look up 'recipe' the same information about it being Latin is there.

Thanks all, I am now wiser and older.

2d. Heard Scots do not whiten lunch box abroad (10) DINN-S-AI-.
23d. Approximately noon for sending up a young hawk (4) N-AS.

Dinner pail (dinnae pale)
Nyas - say, n(oon) reversed

Warhable

2 Dinner Pail (sounds line Dinnae Pale)
23 Nyas, a young hawk. (Say +N/noon, reversed/upwards_