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Salary cap yet to be announced, as is expenditure (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

spending

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'is expenditure' is the definition.
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'salary cap yet to be announced' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'be' could be 'end' (ending is a kind of being) and 'end' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'as' is the link.

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(Other definitions for spending that I've seen before include "Using money or passing time" , "expenses" , "splashing out?" , "'''Getting and ..., we lay waste our powers'' (Wordsworth) (8)'" , "Laying out time or money" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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