Encounter urgent demand: a sign of the times? (3,6)
I believe the answer is:
run across
'encounter' is the definition.
(I know that encounter can be written as run across)
'urgent demand a sign of the times?' is the wordplay.
'urgent demand' becomes 'run' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sign of the times?' becomes 'cross' (I've seen this in another clue).
'run'+'a'+'cross'='RUN ACROSS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for run across that I've seen before include "Find by chance" , "what this answer doesn't do" , "Unexpectedly meet" , "Chance upon" , "By chance encounter" .)