Solution for 27 April cryptic crossword clue

Dreadful, the French records (10)

Solution – Chronicles

Ignore the punctuation here.  The split of the clue into 2 parts is “Dreadful, the French” and “records”.

Dreadful = chronic

The French = les (in other clues it could also mean le or la – all being words for “the” in French)

Chronic + les = chronicles which is a words for a register or record of events.


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