double duty

Definitions

1. 1

   The performance of two roles simultaneously.

   • But if a token phenomenal feel does double duty in this way (as a token of an aspect of both the pain and our way of thinking of the pain), no extra specter of dualism arises.
2. 2

   A cryptic device or cluing error whereby a term forms part of both the definition and the…

   A cryptic device or cluing error whereby a term forms part of both the definition and the wordplay.

   • I find this anagram fascinating, a message from the god of language. Mess serves double duty here, as synonym and as anagram tip-off.
   • "working" here does double duty as an anagram indicator and as a main constituent of the definition.
   • Dunnart is undoubtedly audacious in suggesting that the first word of “Skip the front page of paper, heading for crossword instead?” might not be really doing double duty.

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