Victims face crisis following upheaval (10)
I believe the answer is:
sacrifices
'victims' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'face crisis following upheaval' is the wordplay.
'following' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'upheaval' is an anagram indicator.
'face'+'crisis'='facecrisis'
'facecrisis' is an anagram of 'SACRIFICES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sacrifices that I've seen before include "Things given up" , "Forfeits" .)