Council disheartened by current measure for parking intervention (5)
I believe the answer is:
clamp
'parking intervention' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'council disheartened by current measure' is the wordplay.
'disheartened' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'current measure' becomes 'amp' (short for ampere, unit of electrical current).
'council' with its centre taken out is 'cl'.
'cl'+'amp'='CLAMP'
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for clamp that I've seen before include "band getting things together" , "pile of turf" , "squeeze" , "Gripping tool" , "Fix firmly" .)