A woman appears as a prosecutor in US (3)
I believe the answer is:
ada
'a woman' is the definition.
(woman's name)
'a prosecutor in us' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'prosecutor' could be 'da' (District Attorney) and 'da' is found within the answer.
A single letter 'a' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'appears as' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ada that I've seen before include "-- Lovelace, pioneer in computing" , "- Lovelace, Byron's daughter & computer pioneer" , "Programming language" , "Computer language; girl's name" , "Computer lang.; f. name" .)