Groovy guys get their leader to take on disheartened supplier's consignments (9)
I believe the answer is:
shipments
'consignments' is the definition.
('shipment' can be a synonym of 'consignment')
'groovy guys get their leader to take on disheartened supplier's' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'guys' could be 'men' (guy can mean a man) and 'men' is present in the answer.
'take on' could be 'ship' (I've seen this before) and 'ship' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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