Show cocaine smuggled into country by 3 on vacation? (8)
I believe the answer is:
indicate
'show' is the definition.
(I know that show can be written as indicate)
'cocaine smuggled into country by 3 on vacation?' is the wordplay.
'cocaine' becomes 'C' (drugs abbreviation).
'smuggled into' indicates putting letters inside.
'country by' becomes 'india' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'd' becomes 'trine' (synonyms).
'on vacation?' means to remove the middle letters (I've seen 'on vacation' mean this).
'trine' with its centre taken out is 'te'.
'c' put within 'india' is 'indica'.
'indica'+'te'='INDICATE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for indicate that I've seen before include "Point out or give some notion of" , "Point out, make known" , "Point, show, signal" , "Point out, suggest" , "(Give a) signal" .)