Bear young agent cycled around lifted tailless cub (9)
I believe the answer is:
reproduce
'bear young' is the definition.
'reproduce' can be an answer for 'bear' (thesaurus). I am unsure of the 'young' bit.
'agent cycled around lifted tailless cub' is the wordplay.
'agent' becomes 'rep' (short for representative).
'cycled' becomes 'rode' (I've seen this before).
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'lifted' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (going up in down clue).
'tailless' means to remove the last letter (the tail of the word is removed).
'cub' with its last letter taken away is 'cu'.
'cu' back-to-front is 'uc'.
'rode' placed around 'uc' is 'roduce'.
'rep'+'roduce'='REPRODUCE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for reproduce that I've seen before include "To propagate" , "achieve propagation" , "Create offspring" , "Procreate or make a copy" , "Procedure (anag.)" .)