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The daily grind and money machine swallow broken dream (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

treadmill

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'the daily grind' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'money machine swallow broken dream' is the wordplay.
'money machine' becomes 'till' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'swallow' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'broken' indicates an anagram.
'dream' anagrammed gives 'readm'.
'till' placed around 'readm' is 'TREADMILL'.

'and' is the link.

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(Other definitions for treadmill that I've seen before include "Boring routine; old rotary device" , "Situation of routine drudgery" , "tedious work" , "Walk and move aimlessly" , "tedious routine" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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