Emergency workers succeeded after initially facing their grief, somehow (12)
I believe the answer is:
firefighters
'emergency workers' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'succeeded after initially facing their grief somehow' is the wordplay.
'succeeded' becomes 's' (genealogical abbreviation).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'initially' indicates taking the first letters.
'somehow' is an anagram indicator.
The first letter of 'facing' is 'f'.
'their'+'grief'='theirgrief'
'theirgrief' with letters rearranged gives 'irefighter'.
'f'+'irefighter'='firefighter'
's' after 'firefighter' is 'FIREFIGHTERS'.
Can you help me to learn more?