Ne’er-do-wells have ways of getting round a bloomer (7)
I believe the answer is:
wasters
'ne'er-do-wells' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'ways of getting round a bloomer' is the wordplay.
'ways of getting' becomes 'ws' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a bloomer' becomes 'aster' (aster is a kind of flowering plant).
'ws' going around 'aster' is 'WASTERS'.
'have' is the link.
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I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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