Article recommends credit centre is strengthened? (5)
I believe the answer is:
armed
'strengthened?' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'article recommends credit centre' is the wordplay.
'article' becomes 'a' (the indefinite article in English).
'recommends' becomes 'rm' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'centre' means to look at the middle letters.
The centre of 'credit' is 'ed'.
'a'+'rm'+'ed'='ARMED'
'is' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for armed that I've seen before include "Carrying a weapon" , "Dream about carrying weapons" , "Provided with weapons" , "unlike the Venus of Milo" , "Gave weapon" .)