Articles name Scotsmen as foreign capitalists? (9)
I believe the answer is:
athenians
'foreign capitalists?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'articles name scotsmen' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'articles' could be 'ans' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'ans' is present in the answer.
'name' could be 'n' (common abbreviation e.g. on forms) and 'n' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'as' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for athenians that I've seen before include "foreign guests perhaps" , "Foreign citizens" .)