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Big trouble getting money out of Central America (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

crash

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'big trouble' is the definition.
'crash' can be an answer for 'trouble' (crash is a kind of trouble). I'm not sure about the 'big' bit.

'money out of central america' is the wordplay.
'money' becomes 'cash' (cash is a type of money).
'out of' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters on the outside of others).
'central' indicates the central letters.
The central letter of 'america' is 'r'.
'cash' placed around 'r' is 'CRASH'.

'getting' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for crash that I've seen before include "Car accident" , "Impact" , "Dramatic fall" , "(Of shares) fall suddenly by a great amount" , "failure" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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