What criminal gets transported to ends of the known public sphere? (8)
I believe the answer is:
sentence
'what criminal' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.
'transported to ends of the known public sphere?' is the wordplay.
'transported' becomes 'sent' (sending is a kind of transporting).
'to ends of' says to take the final letters (I've seen 'end of' mean this).
The final letters of 'the known public sphere' are 'ence'.
'sent'+'ence'='SENTENCE'
'gets' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sentence that I've seen before include "life perhaps" , "Condemnation" , "that may be penned?" , "It makes sense" , "Part of a message" .)