Escorts away American and others staggering across university (6,3)
I believe the answer is:
ushers out
'escorts away' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their -s form, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'american and others staggering across university' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'US' (United States).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'staggering' indicates anagramming the letters (letters stagger around).
'across' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'university' becomes 'u' (abbreviation for university).
'others' with letters rearranged gives 'hersot'.
'hersot' enclosing 'u' is 'hersout'.
'us'+'hersout'='USHERS OUT'
Can you help me to learn more?