Illustration on the outside with name, swinging regularly? (3,4)
I believe the answer is:
inn sign
'illustration on the outside with name swinging regularly?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.
'illustration on the outside with name swinging regularly?' is the wordplay.
'on the outside' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'name' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation e.g. on forms).
'regularly?' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'illustration' with its centre taken out is 'in'.
The alternating letters of 'swinging' are 'sign'.
'in'+'n'+'sign'='INN-SIGN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for inn sign that I've seen before include "Board showing name of pub" , ""The Bull" perhaps" , "One usually outside pub" , "Pub name carrier" , "one shows identity at pub door" .)