13, assuming pawn shop primarily goes with gold for finance (7)
Guardian
Cryptic
#29438
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27 Across
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2024-07-18
Generating...
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.