Anticipating being in the club (9)
I believe the answer is:
expecting
'anticipating' is the definition.
('expect' can be a synonym of 'anticipate')
'being in the club' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'being' could be 'ex' (ex is a kind of being) and 'ex' is located in the answer.
'in' is found in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for expecting that I've seen before include "pregnant" , "Anticipating, looking forward to" , "Regarding as likely to happen" .)