Cut of meat for league leaders? (7)
I believe the answer is:
topside
'cut' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'meat for league leaders?' is the wordplay.
'meat' becomes 'side' (side is a kind of meat).
'for' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'league leaders?' becomes 'top' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'side' put after 'top' is 'TOPSIDE'.
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for topside that I've seen before include "Cut of beef from thigh" , "Outer cut of beef" , "Dish" , "Towards ship's upper decks; part of cut of beef" , "a cut above the others?" .)