George notice Grace ends attempt to produce gizmos? (8)
I believe the answer is:
gadgetry
'produce gizmos?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how they can define each other.
'george notice grace ends attempt' is the wordplay.
'george' becomes 'g'.
'notice' becomes 'ad' (both can mean an advertisement).
'ends' means to remove the middle letters.
'attempt' becomes 'try' (synonyms).
'grace' with its middle removed is 'ge'.
'g'+'ad'+'ge'+'try'='GADGETRY'
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for gadgetry that I've seen before include "Small ingenious devices in general" , "The making of small ingenious devices" , "gismos" , "Mechanical tools" .)