Archer’s old wife meeting maiden in bar (6)
I believe the answer is:
bowman
'archer's' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'old wife meeting maiden in bar' is the wordplay.
'old wife' becomes 'ow' (this might be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'meeting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'maiden' becomes 'm' (cricket abbreviation).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bar' becomes 'ban' (bar can mean to ban or prohibit).
'ow'+'m'='owm'
'owm' going into 'ban' is 'BOWMAN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bowman that I've seen before include "one of The Archers" , "Tell" , "first of eight" , "violinist!" , "Missile launcher" .)