Taxi carrying southern strikebreaker

The answer to “Taxi carrying southern strikebreaker” in the The Telegraph Cryptic crossword is SCAB — a 4-letter word. It most recently appeared in the The Telegraph Cryptic crossword on September 2, 2026, a Wednesday puzzle, at 25-Down. Below you'll find why that fill fits, every other answer we've recorded for this clue, and links into the puzzle it came from.

“Taxi carrying southern strikebreaker” answer

SCAB (4 letters)

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What does SCAB mean?

Reading the plain dictionary sense of SCAB is often the fastest way to see why it answers this clue.

When else has “Taxi carrying southern strikebreaker” appeared?

The Telegraph Cryptic reuses clues across dates, sometimes with a different answer depending on the grid. Here's where this exact clue has shown up, and what the answer was each time — handy when you're checking whether today's fill is the only one.

September 2, 2026 (most recent) → SCAB. We haven't indexed another appearance of this exact clue yet.

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