The Yard, say, certain to pursue scallywag, with fury about a male criminal (8,7)

Guardian Cryptic #29174 | 1 Down | 2023-09-13
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

the yard is an imperial unit of measurement SURE=”certain”, after all of: IMP=”scallywag”, plus IRE=”fury” reversed/”about”, plus A, plus anagram/”criminal” of (male)*

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