Scrounge from duke imprisoned? (5)
I believe the answer is:
cadge
'scrounge' is the definition.
(I know that scrounge can be written as cadge)
'from duke imprisoned?' is the wordplay.
'from' becomes 'cage' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'duke' becomes 'd' (abbreviation).
'imprisoned?' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cage' going around 'd' is 'CADGE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cadge that I've seen before include "get free" , "Sponge (money, etc)" , "Scrounge, sponge" , "Get money by sponging" , "beg" .)