Pole taking meat around for sale? (5)
I believe the answer is:
venal
'for sale?' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'pole taking meat' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'pole' could be 'n' (abbreviation for North, as in North Pole) and 'n' is located in the answer.
'meat' could be 'veal' (veal is a kind of meat) and 'veal' is located in the leftover letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'around' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for venal that I've seen before include "Corrupt, dishonest" , "can be bought cheaply" , "Open to bribes" , "Corruptly mercenary" , "motivated by corruption" .)