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Need help with parsing please!

5a Old man's weakness - old variety of pinball (8)

The answer is PACHINKO = old japanese form of pinball

Now, I can see PA = old man, but CHINKO ?

The only meaning I find is; japanese word for a part of male
anatomy ............... Surely there is something I am missing?

Hi pigale, the wordplay is split by the -; chink = weakness + o = old.

Pa = old man

Chink = weakness/ a crack, cleft, or fissure

Old = O

Ah! Never saw it that way!

Thanks Ginge!

And thanks to you as well Shooty!

I'd read it as chin KO (knock out) and thought the old refered to the type of pinball (which I had to look up). But the above makes more sense.