Democrat First Lady meeting hacks and pioneers (8)
I believe the answer is:
develops
'pioneers' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with creating things as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'democrat first lady meeting hacks' is the wordplay.
'democrat' becomes 'd'.
'first lady' becomes 'eve' (Biblical first woman).
'meeting' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'hacks' becomes 'lops' (I've seen this in another clue).
'd'+'eve'+'lops'='DEVELOPS'
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for develops that I've seen before include "Grows or formulates" , "'Evolves, grows (8)'" , "Grows, progresses" , "Evolves or matures" , "Grows, increases or evolves" .)