Group of intelligence analysts discontented about being subordinate to soldiers (5)
I believe the answer is:
mensa
'group of intelligence' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer. I also know that 'intelligence' relates to this answer.
'analysts discontented about being subordinate to soldiers' is the wordplay.
'discontented' means to remove the middle letters (the word's contents are removed).
'about' says the letters should be written backwards.
'being subordinate to' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, some letters go beneath others).
'soldiers' becomes 'men' (men can mean a group of soldiers).
'analysts' with its middle taken out is 'as'.
'as' written backwards gives 'sa'.
'sa' put after 'men' is 'MENSA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mensa that I've seen before include "High IQ_organisation" , "Organisation for people with high IQ" , "Organisation for those with high IQs" , "High IQ society" , "High-IQ organisation" .)