Foreign vessel is shrouded in silence (7)
I believe the answer is:
spanish
'foreign' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are adjectives, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'vessel is shrouded in silence' is the wordplay.
'vessel' becomes 'pan' (vessel or container for cooking).
'shrouded in' is an insertion indicator.
'silence' becomes 'sh' ('sh' is said to tell someone to be silent).
'pan'+'is'='panis'
'panis' put within 'sh' is 'SPANISH'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for spanish that I've seen before include "Language of much of Central America" , "Nationality of citizen of Cadiz" , "European language used in other countries" , "From Valencia or Malaga?" , "Language of much of the New World" .)