Cut local tree for poles, they say (9)
I believe the answer is:
electoral
'poles they say' is the definition.
The definition and answer are not the same part of speech.
'cut local tree' is the wordplay.
'cut' is an anagram indicator.
'local'+'tree'='localtree'
'localtree' is an anagram of 'ELECTORAL'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for electoral that I've seen before include "of constituents" , "Relating to the voting system" , "concerning voters" , "concerned with votes" , "made up of voters" .)