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Flashers
risk
lenient
sentence
at
first
(6,6)
Flashers risk lenient sentence at first (6,6)
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The definition is at the beginning of the clue.
How the clue works
Those Flashers on a car are the warning indicators, and the wordplay builds them in three chunks. Start with HAZARD for "risk", add LIGHT for "lenient", then finish with S, the first letter of "sentence" (that's what "at first" is telling you).