Life sentence? (6,4)
I believe the answer is:
prison term
'life sentence?' is the definition.
'prison term' can be an answer for 'sentence?' ('prison term' can be a synonym of 'sentence'). I am not sure about the 'life' bit.
'life sentence?' is the wordplay.
'life' becomes 'prison' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sentence?' becomes 'term' (sentence is a kind of term).
'prison'+'term'='PRISON TERM'
Can you help me to learn more?
I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Irish Times.
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