Traders always ready to give a hand? (7)
I believe the answer is:
dealers
'traders' is the definition.
(I know this)
'always ready to give a hand?' is the wordplay.
'always ready' becomes 'ers' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'give a hand?' becomes 'deal' (I've seen this in another clue).
'ers' after 'deal' is 'DEALERS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dealers that I've seen before include "Merchants" , "handing out cards" , "Traders -- leaders (anag)" , "Traders in goods and currencies" .)