Bird endlessly soaring over rigid trees (7)
I believe the answer is:
orchard
'trees' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'bird endlessly soaring over rigid' is the wordplay.
'bird' becomes 'crow' (crow is a kind of bird).
'endlessly' means to remove the last letter.
'soaring' is a reversal indicator (in a down clue, letters 'soar' up).
'over rigid' becomes 'hard' (I've seen this before. I am not sure about the 'over' bit.).
'crow' with its final letter taken away is 'cro'.
'cro' backwards is 'orc'.
'orc'+'hard'='ORCHARD'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for orchard that I've seen before include "where fruit trees grow" , "Field of fruit trees" , "One may grow fruit" , "Fruit-tree plot" , "Small cultivated wood" .)