Classify improvement to feline self-esteem? (10)
I believe the answer is:
categorise
'classify' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'improvement to feline self-esteem?' is the wordplay.
'improvement' becomes 'rise' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'feline' becomes 'cat' (cat is a kind of feline).
'self esteem?' becomes 'ego' (I've seen this in another clue).
'cat'+'ego'='catego'
'rise' after 'catego' is 'CATEGORISE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for categorise that I've seen before include "Sort" , "class" , "Classify" .)