Spooner’s crazy convicts have mildly pornographic publications? (3,4)
I believe the answer is:
lad mags
'spooner's crazy' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'convicts have mildly pornographic publications?' is the wordplay.
'convicts' becomes 'lags' (I've seen this before).
'have' indicates putting letters inside.
'mildly pornographic publications?' becomes 'adm' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'lags' enclosing 'adm' is 'LAD MAGS'.
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