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15 across - One enabling record broadcast? (6)

Answer is STYLUS but am I missing something on the parsing? Is it just a cryptic in the sense that a stylus enables a record to be heard? There must be more to it, surely?

I think that "cryptic definition" is all it is, puzzledbob.

Thanks - glad I’m not missing anything, I suppose. Feels a bit unsatisfactory as a clue, though. Not that I can really put my finger on why.

For me, it’s unsatisfactory because clues like this usually rely on a superficially misleading surface in their normal reading. So if “record” naturally led one to think of something without equal, it might save it. Like “Love handles? (3,5) as a clue for “pet names”. But it doesn’t, and I don’t think the fact that a stylus was also used to create records on wax in Roman times, and is now used on digital devices, saves it.

Well put - that’s what was nagging at me, really - it’s arguably not even cryptic on that basis. I spent sometime if broadcast indicated a homophone, but I doesn’t seem to…

I agree with quisling that it doesn't quite work as an "&lit" type clue.

I Quote from Alberich, who knows a thing or two about cryptic clues,

"An &lit is the cryptic definition only clue where only the definition is given, but it is worded in such a way that it is designed to mislead"

....and here is a link to his in depth study of the subject.

https://www.alberich-crosswords.com/more-articles/lit-clues