Draw analogies with accepting daughter as friend (8)
I believe the answer is:
compadre
'friend' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'draw analogies with accepting daughter' is the wordplay.
'draw analogies with' becomes 'compare' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'accepting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'daughter' becomes 'd' (genealogical abbreviation).
'compare' going around 'd' is 'COMPADRE'.
'as' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for compadre that I've seen before include "American friend" , "Friend, companion" , "Friend (from Spanish)" .)