Artists raised in gloomy environment create Venus de Milo look? (6)
I believe the answer is:
disarm
'environment create venus de milo look?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'artists raised in gloomy' is the wordplay.
'artists' becomes 'RA's' (Royal Academicians abbreviation).
'raised' says the letters should be written backwards (going up in a down clue).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'gloomy' becomes 'dim'.
'ras' backwards is 'sar'.
'sar' going into 'dim' is 'DISARM'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for disarm that I've seen before include "Demilitarise" , "Do away with weaponry" , "Placate" , "Take away weapons or win over" , "Charm, win over" .)