13, assuming pawn shop primarily goes with gold for finance (7)

Guardian Cryptic #29438 | 27 Across | 2024-07-18
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A charade of SPON, an envelope (‘assuming’) of P (‘pawn’, chess notation) in SON (’13’ half nel SON ‘) plus S (‘ S hop primarily’) plus OR (‘gold’). “finance’ as a verb.

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