Bananas in abundance, cultivated over farmlands essentially (10)
I believe the answer is:
unbalanced
'bananas in' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'abundance cultivated over farmlands essentially' is the wordplay.
'cultivated' is an anagram indicator.
'over' indicates putting letters inside.
'essentially' means to look at the middle letters.
The centre of 'farmlands' is 'l'.
'abundance' with letters rearranged gives 'unbaanced'.
'unbaanced' enclosing 'l' is 'UNBALANCED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for unbalanced that I've seen before include "Wanting fairness" , "not put on scales?" , "Nuts" .)