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21 across - Mock prosperous person that’s locked in East Georgian jail (4,2,3,5).

The answer is “send up the river” but how does Georgian” come into it?

I get “send up” for mock, TH(E)RIVER from prosperous person that’s locked in East, and jail looks like the definition.

However this doesn’t account for Goergian. I understand that the phrase originated from sending people to Sing-Sing which was in the Georgian era, but that feels like way too much of a stretch. What am I missing?

I found this via Google AI but it only appeared once I'd ignored all the AI Sing Sing references, so make of it what you will...

The phrase "send up the river" is a common idiom in the United States, referring to being sent to a state or federal prison. In the context of Georgia, "the river" refers to the Savannah River, the state's major boundary. Andersonville, being located on the southwestern side of the state, became associated with this idiom as a place where prisoners were ultimately sent for long sentences.

Georgian just refers to US state of Georgia, so directing you to it being American slang

Think Georgian is simply a US indicator

Occam's razor - should have known 😥

Brendan, you made me chuckle - and it's absolutely ages since you last (ahem) over-complicated things!

Honestly Malone, it's not as if I don't know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing it, but I just can't help mysef 🤕

Not sure if my last reply posted - thanks all. Georgian as a US indicator makes perfect sense to me!