Teacher, soldier and tenor setting up one those with banks in Iraq? (6)
I believe the answer is:
tigris
'in iraq?' is the definition.
('Tigris' is part of 'iraq')
'teacher soldier and tenor setting up' is the wordplay.
'teacher' becomes 'sir' (I've seen this before**).
'soldier' becomes 'gi' (government issue or general issue).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'tenor' becomes 't'.
'setting up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'sir'+'gi'+'t'='sirgit'
'sirgit' in reverse letter order is 'TIGRIS'.
'one those with banks' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tigris that I've seen before include "Tributary of the Euphrates River" , "Major tributary of the Euphrates" , "Baghdad's river" , "It flows from Turkey to the Persian Gulf" , "flower of Iraq" .)