Local holds down a second job producing first movie shooting out around Lima (10)
I believe the answer is:
moonlights
'local holds down a second job' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'first movie shooting out around lima' is the wordplay.
'first movie' becomes 'm' (1st letter of 'movie').
'out' indicates anagramming the letters (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'lima' becomes 'L' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'm'+'shooting'='mshooting'
'mshooting' is an anagram of 'moonights'.
'moonights' going around 'l' is 'MOONLIGHTS'.
'producing' acts as a link.
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