Adjust rent to encourage bad person (6,3)
I believe the answer is:
rotten egg
'bad person' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.
'adjust rent to encourage' is the wordplay.
'adjust' is an anagram indicator.
'encourage' becomes 'egg'.
'rent'+'to'='rentto'
'rentto' with letters rearranged gives 'rotten'.
'rotten'+'egg'='ROTTEN EGG'
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(Another definition for rotten egg that I've seen is " A stinker?".)
I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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