Ex-pro's struggling to clinch league for Hammers (7)
I believe the answer is:
plexors
'hammers' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'ex-pro's struggling to clinch league' is the wordplay.
'struggling' indicates anagramming the letters (the letters struggle or wriggle into a new form).
'to clinch' is an insertion indicator.
'league' becomes 'l' (abbreviation).
'ex'+'pros'='expros'
'expros' anagrammed gives 'pexors'.
'pexors' going around 'l' is 'PLEXORS'.
'for' is the link.
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