Goods that are stolen from store income (7)
I believe the answer is:
takings
'income' is the definition.
(I know that takings is a type of income)
'goods that are stolen from store' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'are' could be 'a' (short for 'are', historical unit of measurement) and 'a' is present in the answer.
'from' could be 'in' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'in' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for takings that I've seen before include "Income from transactions" , "gold received?" , "Income from sales, etc" , "Monetary receipts" , "What's in the till" .)