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Safe
‘n’
sound?
Two
extinct
every
second!
(3-5)
Safe ‘n’ sound? Two extinct every second! (3-5)
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The definition is at the beginning of the clue.
How the clue works
Safe is the definition, meaning non-toxic. The wordplay reads the phrase "'n' sound Two extinct" and picks out every second letter — keeping N, O, N from "n sound", then T, O from "Two", then X, I, C from "extinct" — which spells out NON-TOXIC.