Bringing someone around to sway Trim is popular with Government (10)
I believe the answer is:
persuading
'bringing' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are present participle verbs, I don't understand how they can define each other.
'someone around to sway trim is popular with government' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'popular' could be 'in' and 'in' is found within the answer.
'government' could be 'g' and 'g' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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