Make South American change for gym class despite coded plea for help (5)
I believe the answer is:
pesos
'make south american change for gym class despite coded plea for help' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'gym class despite coded plea for help' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'gym' could be 'pe' (short for Physical Education) and 'pe' is present in the answer.
'plea' could be 'sos' (I've seen this before) and 'sos' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pesos that I've seen before include "Mexican dollars" , "Poses for Mexican money" , "Poses for Mexican coins" , "Mexican monetary units" .)