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Tool that’s sharp but may be said to be blunt (5)
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How the clue works
The straight bit here is Tool that’s sharp, which a spade certainly is. The witty twist comes from the idiom to "call a spade a spade" — meaning to speak plainly or bluntly — so a spade may be said to be blunt, the whole clue playing on that double sense with no separate wordplay to unpick.