Excavate lamp with bizarre genies in a state of dormancy (8)
I believe the answer is:
sleeping
'dormancy' is the definition.
(I know that dormancy can be written as sleeping)
'excavate lamp with bizarre genies in a state' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'in' is within the answer.
'state' could be 'sleep' (sleep is a kind of state) and 'sleep' is located in the answer.
A single letter 'g' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sleeping that I've seen before include "In the land of Nod" , "Dormant" .)