As yet struggling to dress wife covered in beads (6)
I believe the answer is:
sweaty
'covered in beads' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs occasionally mean the same thing.
'as yet struggling to dress wife' is the wordplay.
'struggling' is an anagram indicator (the letters struggle or wriggle into a new form).
'to dress' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are dressed in another word).
'wife' becomes 'w' (abbreviation).
'as'+'yet'='asyet'
'asyet' with letters rearranged gives 'seaty'.
'seaty' going around 'w' is 'SWEATY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sweaty that I've seen before include "Given to perspiring, in moist state" , "affected by the heat" , "like some athletes in competition?" , "Damp with perspiration" , "Covered in perspiration" .)