Can you solve this clue? -14

Yesterday’s clue had a spectacular response and the number of correct answers from all you who cracked it hit a new record:)

38 people managed to register their right answers in the blog and I doubt if we are going to be able to beat that mind-boggling number any time soon. Congrats to Raja Venkatasubramanian (our first one in), Sandhya Paruchuri, Arun Kumar,  Samit Kallianpur, Sunil, John Chute, Tulika Das, Arvind Ramaswamy, Venkatraghavan S., Camelia Oberoi, Aniruddha Mitra, Radhika Anand, Suresh, Raghavan S V, Santosh Iyer, Adarsh Kumar Mohapatra, Jawahar, Sabitha Satchi, Raju Umamaheswar, Lis Venky, Rhiannon Vivian-Bolt, LV, Shafeeq S,  Chitkala, Abraham Mathew, Subbaraman, Paddy Craven, Koteswara Rao, Mukundala Balasubramanyam,  Usha Mehta,  Arjun Mukerjee, Jyotsna Deo, Lata Muthanna, Ranjani Srikanth, Srividya Thyagarajan, Sohil,  N.S. Srikanta Murthy and Rengaswamy N. GAS Sarma – Sorry, Ruby is the wrong answer. Better luck in our next challenge.

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The Clue was “Bishop always protects this stone (4)”. The Answer was “OPAL”.

This is a “Hidden” word clue. If you read it carefully you will be able to spot “bish OP AL ways..” has got “OPAL” hiding in it. The word “Protects” is the Indicator that it is a hidden word clue.

The definition is  “This stone” which is a definition by example. Once again, well done to each of you who not only solved it but also annotated it correctly in our blog post. Now, Can you solve THIS clue?