Cryptic Crosswords – Solving hints #6

An easy one to start with:

Grasslike plant in small border (5)

Two parts, looking at the second the reference to “small” often indicates the abbreviation “s”.  If you add “edge” which is a border to the s, you get “sedge” and what do you know that is a grasslike plant.

Another slightly harder one:

Surprise caused by a tanker originally entering channel (7)

Here the first part is the first word, with the rest making up the second part.  So the solution is a word that means “surprise”

The word “originally” suggests the first letter – in this case of “tanker” – so a which is mentioned and t in conjunction with a word meaning channel will be the answer.  A “sound” is a natural channel – so you end up with “astound”.


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