Tolerate police impounding boat when things are declining (4,6)

Independent Cryptic #11396 | 19 Across | 2023-04-21
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

BEAR (as a verb = tolerate) + MET (short for the Metropolitan Police in London), containing (impounding) ARK (boat). Bear market = the state of the stock market when people are selling shares in anticipation of a fall in value.

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