Actress fording river gets thoroughly wet (6)
I believe the answer is:
drench
'wet' is the definition.
(drenching is a kind of wetting)
'actress fording river gets thoroughly' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'river' could be 'r' (abbreviation for river) and 'r' is present in the answer.
'actress' could be 'dench' (I've seen this before) and 'dench' is present in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for drench that I've seen before include "Soak, souse" , "Soak, douse" , "Soak with liquid" , "Swamp" , "Soak or saturate" .)