Story going round about parent could be spam? (5)
I believe the answer is:
'be spam?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'story going round about parent' is the wordplay.
'story' becomes 'lie' (story can mean a fabrication).
'going round' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'parent' becomes 'ma' (ma can mean mum or mother).
'lie' written backwards gives 'eil'.
'eil' enclosing 'ma' is 'EMAIL'.
'could' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for email that I've seen before include "Internet-borne communication" , "Post" , "Messages between computer terminals" , "Spam perhaps" , "Message sent via computer" .)