Atlas drawn roughly by learner with shortcomings revealed (5-3-3)
I believe the answer is:
warts-and-all
'with shortcomings revealed' is the definition.
(as in a warts-and-all biography)
'atlas drawn roughly by learner' is the wordplay.
'roughly' is an anagram indicator.
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'learner' becomes 'l' (as in a learner driver with L-plates on their car).
'atlas'+'drawn'='atlasdrawn'
'atlasdrawn' anagrammed gives 'wartsandal'.
'wartsandal'+'l'='WARTS-AND-ALL'
I've seen this clue in The Times.
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