Bother An Animal

[satprof]

Today's Alphapuzzle cryptic clue. Thanks to dummyfluter for covering yesterday.

[JJ109]

Badger

[bobbinwales]

Or hound.or dog or nag? But badger looks likely

[satprof]

Thanks JJ. That looks to be perfect.

In terms of fitting it in the grid, there are a mere 12 possibilities. Fortunately 9 of these can be eliminated but it will take a bit of time to check the others.

[satprof]

Thanks JJ, but bobbinwales had good suggestions.

It ended up with only two possibilities for Badger, and they share the same initial letter. One of them had 1, which is doubled, as the 2nd letter so it is highly unlikely to be an A. The other possibility works well. It's worth noting that there is something of a glut of Q today.

[Dummyfluter]

BADGER all the way !

[mouseymick]

Badger .. 7,10,24,26,1,6 and P is 11