Clued In #340 | A pious life or a life of Pi?

Read on to figure out how to solve clues like... ‘Rogue’s good vehicle is near roundabout (6)’

his film image released by 20th Century Fox shows Suraj Sharma as Pi Patel in a scene from "Life of Pi." With 11 Academy Awards nominations, second only to “Lincoln” with 12, and the sort of global box-office receipts normally reserved for superheroes, “Life of Pi” is one of the most unusual megahits ever to hit the big-screen. (AP Photo/20th Century Fox)

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A pious life is unrelated to the life of Pi.

But likening unlikely things in a roundabout way is the rage in cryptics; no lie!

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Clue explained:

Rogue’s good vehicle is near roundabout (6) CLUES:

: British slang, abbreviation Clue types

: rogue Definition

: AnswerPICARO

We need a 6-letter word here that means ‘rogue’.

In Britain, they use PI as a slangword for “pious” in reference to someone who is hypocritically ‘good’.

A kind of ‘vehicle’ is CAR.

The visual symbol for a ‘roundabout’ is O.

Altogether, that spells PICARO, a 6-letter word of Spanish origin that means ‘rogue’!