Exercise right to cut article by edgy colleague, showing dogged resolve (12)
I believe the answer is:
perseverance
'resolve' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'exercise right to cut article by edgy colleague showing dogged' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'exercise' could be 'pe' (Physical Education) and 'pe' is present in the answer.
'right' could be 'r' (abbreviation) and 'r' is located in the answer.
'cut' could be 'severance' (severance is a kind of cut) and 'severance' is found within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for perseverance that I've seen before include "Determination" , "Continuing endeavour" , "Steady persistence" , "Tenacity, doggedness" , "It may get you through" .)