17D Parsing

[CrikeyMoses]

Make a suggestion: take work into enclosure - ?R?P?U?D, propound, presumably.

I can see OP inside POUND but can't account for the R - can someone show me the embarrassingly obvious thing I'm missing please.

[CrikeyMoses]

^ That's in Saturday's i paper by the way, sorry I messed up the post title.

[hc4361]

Propound

Pro - professional, what one does for work

[CrikeyMoses]

Thanks - I did consider pro but I still can't see how that fits "take work". Pro is a noun or an adjective.

[Mamyalynne]

Looks like there's a word missing in the clue to give the 'R'.

[BlackadderV]

R is short for Recipe, Latin for take.

[BlackadderV]

P R OP OUND

[Mamyalynne]

Interesting, thank you.

[CrikeyMoses]

Thank you, BlackadderV. Confirmed on this wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword_abbreviations