Find the amount a child will get out of bed for? (3,2)
I believe the answer is:
tot up
'find' is the definition.
(I know that tot up is a more specific form of the action count)
'amount a child will get out of bed for?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'amount' could be 't' (T is an example) and 't' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'out' is 'otu' which is within the answer.
A single letter 'p' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tot up that I've seen before include "Summate" , "Do summer job" , "Sum - total" , "Add (some numbers)" , "Tally" .)