Brownish vehicle male crashed (7)
I believe the answer is:
caramel
'brownish' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'vehicle male crashed' is the wordplay.
'vehicle' becomes 'car' (car is a kind of vehicle).
'crashed' indicates anagramming the letters.
'male' anagrammed gives 'amel'.
'car'+'amel'='CARAMEL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for caramel that I've seen before include "Toffee-like sweet" , "Chew candy" , "Cooked sugar" , "It's produced by heating sugar until brown" , "Burnt sugar used for flavouring" .)