What’s shown by a couple of Liberals briefly sharing equally? (5-5)
I believe the answer is:
fifty-fifty
'equally?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'what's shown by a couple' is the wordplay.
'what's shown by' becomes 'fifty' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a couple' shows that letters should be duplicated.
'fifty' doubled is 'FIFTY-FIFTY'.
'of liberals briefly sharing' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for fifty-fifty that I've seen before include "Equally" , "Evenly divided" , "Fairly" , "Evens" .)