Azed 2465

[iminoz]

8d. Circular (rarely) one's taken around Edinburgh's capital, getting one just beyond there (5)
I have OER?Y
I thought it might be a contraction of OVERBY, (E in ORBY, circular), but I can't find it in Chambers.

[JJ109]

John Jamieson
O'ERBY, adv. Over ; denoting motion from one place to another at no great distance from it, S. Quo' she unto the sheal step ye o'erby. Ross's Helenore, p. 76.

[iminoz]

Thanks for the references, JJ. That must be it. The "one"s seem superfluous to the Wordplay, which is unusual for Azed. He's normally so precise.