Confess member's short of $1,000, for the record (6)
I believe the answer is:
single
'the record' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'confess member's short' is the wordplay.
'confess' becomes 'sing' (I've seen this before).
'member' becomes 'leg' (I've seen this before).
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'leg' with its last letter taken away is 'le'.
'sing'+'le'='SINGLE'
'of $1000 for' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
(Other definitions for single that I've seen before include "Still miss" , "Free" , "Unaccompanied" , "One-way ticket" , "Concentrating on only one aim" .)