Moving pests off cleaner stuff? (8,7)
I believe the answer is:
personal effects
'stuff?' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'moving pests off cleaner' is the wordplay.
'moving' indicates an anagram (letters are moved around).
'pests'+'off'+'cleaner'='pestsoffcleaner'
'pestsoffcleaner' anagrammed gives 'PERSONAL EFFECTS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for personal effects that I've seen is " Property".)