Precious metals area in Greek shopping centre? (5)
I believe the answer is:
agora
'shopping centre?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'precious metals area in greek' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'metals' could be 'ora' (Os is an example) and 'ora' is present in the answer.
'area' could be 'a' (maths abbreviation) and 'a' is located in the answer.
'greek' could be 'g' (philological abbreviation) and 'g' is found in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for agora that I've seen before include "Ancient Greek market area" , "Meeting-place in Athens" , "money from Israel" , "(Many-headed) monster" , "Marketplace in ancient Greece" .)