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Hustler’s
damage
includes
train
wreck
(3,6)
Hustler’s damage includes train wreck (3,6)
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The definition is at the beginning of the clue.
How the clue works
Right, so Hustler at the start is your definition — that's what a con artist is. Now for the wordplay: take COST (as in damage, the cost of something), split it open, and stuff inside an anagram of TRAIN, signalled by "wreck" — that gives you NARTI. Slot NARTI into the gap in COST and you get CON ARTIST.