Short of money, copper has drafts
forged (8,3,4)
Solution
– Strapped for cash
This
is an anagram clue. But I really like how you could read the
whole clue as being about the same thing.
The definition is found in the first 3 words and the rest of the clue is
the word play. The anagram indicator (ie
the piece of the clue that hints that an anagram is involved) is “forged”. By adding up the number of letters in the
solution you can work out that the anagram must be of “copper has drafts”.
Quite
a difficult anagram to work out – I needed to deconstruct the letters before I
had a show at it.
“Strapped
for cash” is another way of saying you are short of money. And is made up of the letters used in “copper
has drafts”.
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