Ordinary cunning nets 51 grand for wealthy individual (8)
I believe the answer is:
oligarch
'wealthy individual' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'ordinary cunning nets 51 grand' is the wordplay.
'ordinary' becomes 'O' (abbreviation e.g. O-Levels).
'cunning' becomes 'arch' (arch can mean cunning or tricksy).
'nets' is an insertion indicator (some letters are contained or netted).
'51' becomes 'LI' (Roman numerals).
'grand' becomes 'g' (G is short for grand as in a thousand).
'o'+'arch'='oarch'
'li'+'g'='lig'
'oarch' going around 'lig' is 'OLIGARCH'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for oligarch that I've seen before include "Member of a small governing group" , "Member of small ruling group" , "member of small ruling class" , "powerful businessman" , "member of power group" .)