Struggled to be heard after Takada’s final gong (5)
I believe the answer is:
award
'gong' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'struggled to be heard after takada's final' is the wordplay.
'struggled' becomes 'warred' (warring is a kind of struggling).
'to be heard' shows a homophone (sound like).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'takada's final' becomes 'a' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'warred' is a homophone of 'ward'.
'ward' after 'a' is 'AWARD'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for award that I've seen before include "Tony, for example" , "Perhaps Tony" , "Prize or other mark of recognition" , "Prize -- gift" , "Adjudge" .)
