A girl wearing cream for repair (7)
I believe the answer is:
salvage
'repair' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'a girl wearing cream' is the wordplay.
'a girl' becomes 'ag' ().
'wearing' is an insertion indicator.
'cream' becomes 'salve'.
'ag' inserted into 'salve' is 'SALVAGE'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for salvage that I've seen before include "Retrieve (goods) from wreck" , "Reclaim" , "Recovery of wrecks" , "Rescue (a ship from loss at sea)" , "Retrieve goods from wrecked ship" .)