Enigmatic stranger losing temper with bully around (8)
I believe the answer is:
abstruse
'enigmatic' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'stranger losing temper with bully around' is the wordplay.
'losing' suggests deleting specific letters.
'temper' becomes 'anger'.
'with bully' becomes 'abuse' (I've seen this before. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.**).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'stranger' with 'anger' removed is 'str'.
'str' put within 'abuse' is 'ABSTRUSE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for abstruse that I've seen before include "Esoteric" , "Difficult to comprehend" , "Strange busts are difficult to understand" , "Obscure or recondite" , "Difficult to understand, obscure" .)