Cry about knight - one with social pretensions... (4)
I believe the answer is:
snob
'cry about knight one with social pretensions' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'cry about knight' is the wordplay.
'cry' becomes 'sob' (sobbing is a kind of crying).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'knight' becomes 'N' (chess abbreviation).
'sob' going around 'n' is 'SNOB'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for snob that I've seen before include "Stuck-up person" , "Snooty type" , "Person who considers himself socially superior" , "One places too high a value on social status" , "Looker-down on others" .)