Job of someone building piles is making sense (8,2)
I believe the answer is:
stacking up
'making sense' is the definition.
(if something stacks up it makes sense)
'job of someone building piles' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'someone' could be 'king' (king is a kind of someone) and 'king' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'is' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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