How waiter's keeping busy in Crime and Punishment (7,4)
I believe the answer is:
killing time
'how waiter's keeping busy' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'crime and punishment' is the wordplay.
'crime' becomes 'killing' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'punishment' becomes 'time' (time in prison).
'killing'+'time'='KILLING TIME'
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for killing time that I've seen before include "Filling in spare moments" , "Occupying oneself to avoid boredom" , "Finding idle amusement - perhaps" , "Occupying oneself to pass hours" .)