Farce! Set right Truss's mismanagement – it's likely to be painful (6,8)
I believe the answer is:
stress fracture
'truss's mismanagement it's likely to be painful' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'farce set right' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'right' could be 'r' (common abbreviation) and 'r' is found in the answer.
an anagram of 'set' is 'ste' which is within the left over letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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