Endeavour to nurse queen where skin undergoing treatment (7)
I believe the answer is:
tannery
'where skin undergoing treatment' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'endeavour to nurse queen' is the wordplay.
'endeavour' becomes 'try' (synonyms).
'to nurse' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'queen' becomes 'anne' (Queen Anne, 18th-century queen).
'try' placed around 'anne' is 'TANNERY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tannery that I've seen before include "where hides are treated" , "skin treatment centre" , "leather shop" , "Leather-processing plant" , "Rather like sun lamp, arguably" .)