Get back and check out the gas shortage (6)
I believe the answer is:
regain
'get back' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'check out the gas shortage' is the wordplay.
'check' becomes 'rein' (both can mean to control or limit).
'out' is an insertion indicator.
'the gas shortage' becomes 'ga' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'rein' placed around 'ga' is 'REGAIN'.
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for regain that I've seen before include "Recover, retrieve" , "Get back, recover the use of" , "Recover - in gear (anag)" , "Win back" , "Take back (the Ashes, for example)" .)
