Enchanting female plays sports in Colorado (7)
I believe the answer is:
calypso
'enchanting female' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'plays sports in colorado' is the wordplay.
'sports' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'sporting' mean this).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'colorado' becomes 'CO' (abbreviation).
'plays' is an anagram of 'alyps'.
'alyps' going inside 'co' is 'CALYPSO'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for calypso that I've seen before include "W. Indies music" , "Topical West Indian song - orchid - sea nymph" , "who detained Odysseus?" , "Sea nymph of Greek mythology - Caribbean ballad" , "Slay cop with a West Indian song" .)