With being kept on lates, fancy working independently? (5-5)
I believe the answer is:
stand-alone
'fancy working independently?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'with being kept on lates' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'with' could be 'and' (I've seen this before) and 'and' is found within the answer.
'on' is found in the answer.
an anagram of 'lates' is 'stale' which is present in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for stand-alone that I've seen is " operate independently".)