International artist caught in Pretty Vacant bootlegging (6)
I believe the answer is:
piracy
'international artist caught in pretty vacant bootlegging' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'international artist caught in pretty vacant' is the wordplay.
'international' becomes 'i' (abbreviation eg in IMF).
'artist' becomes 'RA' (Royal Academician, member of Royal Academy of Arts).
'caught' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'vacant' means to remove the middle letters (a vacant or emptied out form of the word).
'pretty' with its middle taken out is 'py'.
'i'+'ra'+'c'='irac'
'irac' placed inside 'py' is 'PIRACY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for piracy that I've seen before include "Illegal copying" , "Robbing of ships at sea" , "Robbery at sea or of copyright" , "Robbery on the high seas" , "Buccaneering" .)