### Clue: The sort of hopeful punt nonspecialist includes (2,4)
### Answer: ON SPEC 
 ### Explanation: Definition: The sort of hopeful punt
  **Hidden in**(includes) nONSPECialist
Defn:  Short for "on speculation",descriptive of eg. a bet,punt, with little or maybe no basis, except hope.  A question of degree I would think, as all bets are, to some degree or other, hopeful.