Assisting girl with jewellery (8)
I believe the answer is:
enabling
'assisting' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are present participle verbs, I don't see how one could define the other.
'girl with jewellery' is the wordplay.
'girl' becomes 'ena' (woman's name).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'jewellery' becomes 'bling' (informal term for jewellery).
'ena'+'bling'='ENABLING'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for enabling that I've seen before include "Being permissive" , "Giving power to make possible" , "Giving authority or means to do something" , "Making something possible, facilitating" , "Empowering" .)