Cutlery item holds temperature exact (6)
I believe the answer is:
spoton
'exact' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'cutlery item holds temperature' is the wordplay.
'cutlery item' becomes 'spoon' (I've seen this before).
'holds' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'temperature' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'spoon' placed around 't' is 'SPOTON'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for spoton that I've seen before include "precise" , "precisely what is needed" , "Exactly!" , "very accurate" .)