Illustrated photograph showing tailor off (9)
I believe the answer is:
pictorial
'illustrated' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)
'photograph showing tailor off' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'photograph' could be 'pic' (short for picture) and 'pic' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'tailor' is 'torial' which is located in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pictorial that I've seen before include "Illustrated" , "Clip a riot (anag) - graphic" , "in photographs" , "Magazine" .)