Beginning to frame a kerb crawling toff out of time (5-3)
I believe the answer is:
break-off
'beginning to frame' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'a kerb crawling toff out of time' is the wordplay.
'crawling' is an anagram indicator (letters crawl around).
'out of' is a deletion indicator.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'toff' with 't' removed is 'off'.
'a'+'kerb'='akerb'
'akerb' anagrammed gives 'break'.
'break'+'off'='BREAK-OFF'
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