Police force uniform with number at bottom of sleeve and number at the top? (5,4)
I believe the answer is:
theme tune
'number at the top?' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.
'police force uniform with number at bottom of sleeve' is the wordplay.
'police force' becomes 'the met'.
'uniform with' becomes 'u' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'number' becomes 'n' (n can represent any number).
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'bottom of' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'sleeve' is 'e'.
'themet'+'u'+'n'+'e'='THEME TUNE'
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for theme tune that I've seen before include "Identifying melody" , "Characteristic melody" .)