Girl bagging rubbish for David, say? (6)
I believe the answer is:
statue
'david say?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.
'girl bagging rubbish' is the wordplay.
'girl' becomes 'sue' (**).
'bagging' means one lot of letters goes inside another (I've seen this in other clues).
'rubbish' becomes 'tat' (I've seen this before).
'sue' going around 'tat' is 'STATUE'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for statue that I've seen before include "Still work" , "Life sculpture" , "Use tat (anag.)" , "Large figure" , "Noble's rank or dignity" .)