Scoundrel abducting king and queen say (4)
I believe the answer is:
card
'queen say' is the definition.
(queen is a kind of card)
'scoundrel abducting king' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'king' could be 'r' (abbreviation for rex, king in Latin) and 'r' is found within the answer.
'scoundrel' could be 'cad' (cad is a kind of scoundrel) and 'cad' is found in the leftover letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for card that I've seen before include "Something (usually) folded with a special message" , "programme at race meeting" , "Heart or club, say?" , "Maybe scratch this" , "Christmas greeting" .)