Earn a living investing in rock star in the pictures (8)
I believe the answer is:
artworks
'the pictures' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'earn a living investing in rock star' is the wordplay.
'earn a living' becomes 'work' (I've seen this in another clue).
'investing in' indicates putting letters inside.
'rock' indicates an anagram (the solver must 'rock' the letters around).
'star' anagrammed gives 'arts'.
'work' inserted inside 'arts' is 'ARTWORKS'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for artworks that I've seen is " Eg, paintings".)