Audit top person’s initially scuppered (3,4,2)
I believe the answer is:
put paid to
'audit top person's initially scuppered' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'audit top person's initially scuppered' is the wordplay.
'initially' suggests taking the first letters.
'scuppered' is an anagram indicator ('scuppered' can mean wrecked).
The initial letter of 'person' is 'p'.
'audit'+'top'+'p'='audittopp'
'audittopp' anagrammed gives 'PUT PAID TO'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for put paid to that I've seen before include "scotch?" , "Stop" , "End - destroy" , "Finish, destroy" , "Finish off, terminate - or issue receipt?" .)