More close-fitting silken pants I must wear with Romeo (8)
I believe the answer is:
slinkier
'more close-fitting' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are comparative adjectives.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'silken pants i must wear with romeo' is the wordplay.
'pants' indicates an anagram (UK informal term for 'nonsense' or 'rubbish').
'must wear' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'romeo' becomes 'r' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'silken' with letters rearranged gives 'slinke'.
'slinke' placed around 'i' is 'slinkie'.
'slinkie'+'r'='SLINKIER'
Can you help me to learn more?