DM Thurs

[Duncer]

A cutting-edge student who lives in (7) I have B?A?D?R and assume it must be "boarder", from the "lives in" part of the clue, but why?

[boxtops]

Is a reference to cutting the edges of boards..?

[dannyk13]

Bo(a)rder

[bibblebub]

"a cutting-edge" means put A inside BORDER [edge]

[boxtops]

Thanks both, for clarification

[Duncer]

Indeed folks, many thanks. I was going to go with boarder, but it was bugging me that I couldn't see why that was the right answer.