Engineers on endless journey with woman to recover (8)
I believe the answer is:
retrieve
'to recover' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'engineers on endless journey with' is the wordplay.
'engineers' becomes 're' (Royal Engineers).
'on' becomes 'to'.
'endless' means to remove the last letter.
'journey with' becomes 'rieve' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' with its final letter removed is 't'.
're'+'t'+'rieve'='RETRIEVE'
'woman' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for retrieve that I've seen before include "Get back or fetch" , "Go for and bring back" , "Search for and discover" , "Get or bring back something" , "Find and bring back" .)