Mass producers in awful crush around revolutionary (8)
I believe the answer is:
churches
'mass producers' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I don't see how they can define each other.
'awful crush around revolutionary' is the wordplay.
'awful' is an anagram indicator.
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'revolutionary' becomes 'che' (Che Guevara the Marxist revolutionary).
'crush' with letters rearranged gives 'churs'.
'churs' enclosing 'che' is 'CHURCHES'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for churches that I've seen is " Places of worship".)