Acceptable new belt for a woman to appear in (7)
I believe the answer is:
tenable
'acceptable' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'new belt for a woman to appear in' is the wordplay.
'new' is an anagram indicator.
'for' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'woman' becomes 'en' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to appear in' indicates putting letters inside.
'belt' put after 'a' is 'abelt'.
'abelt' is an anagram of 'table'.
'table' placed around 'en' is 'TENABLE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tenable that I've seen before include "Can be maintained" , "Able to be held" , "Capable of being kept" , "Able to be believed" , "Based on sound reasoning or evidence" .)
