Time for a few words (8)
I believe the answer is:
sentence
This clue is a double definition.
'time' is the first definition.
('time' can refer to a prison sentence)
'a few words' is the second definition.
(a sentence is made up of words)
'for' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for sentence that I've seen before include "Writing piece" , "delivered in a few words" , "Court judgement" , "Punishment handed down by a court" , "Jail term and grammatical term" .)