American in nick -- new one's arrested? Out of the question (3,1,6)
I believe the answer is:
not a chance
'american' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.
'nick new one's arrested? out of the question' is the wordplay.
'nick new' becomes 't' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'one' becomes 'a' (a thing is one thing).
'arrested?' is an insertion indicator (arrest can mean to hold or imprison).
'out of the question' becomes 'no chance' (I've seen this in another clue).
't'+'a'='ta'
'ta' placed into 'nochance' is 'NOT A CHANCE'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for not a chance that I've seen before include "on your bike?" , "That won't happen" .)