Are robins endlessly flying like this? (8)
I believe the answer is:
airborne
'this?' is the definition.
The definition and answer are not the same part of speech.
'are robins endlessly flying' is the wordplay.
'endlessly' means to remove the last letter.
'flying' indicates anagramming the letters.
'are'+'robins'='arerobins'
'arerobins' with its last letter taken off is 'arerobin'.
'arerobin' is an anagram of 'AIRBORNE'.
'like' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for airborne that I've seen before include "Having taken off" , "so, paras?" , "in Hercules, perhaps" , "as birds often are" , "in the sky" .)