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One of Paul’s aliases elsewhere is Dada. In the Sunday Telegraph, one day after a certain Liverpool-Tottenham game, Dada gave us this clue …

5d In disagreement, a certain VAR almost entirely inaccurate (2,8)
[ wordplay: anagram of (‘inaccurate’) most of (‘almost entirely’) ACERTAINVAR ]
[ anagram of ACERTAINVA ]
[ definition: in disagreement ]

… for AT VARIANCE. Also in a prize puzzle, Boatman gives us this

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