French aristocrat has the last say in an English LGA (6)
I believe the answer is:
county
'french' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'aristocrat has the last say in an english lga' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'aristocrat' could be 'count' (some European aristocracies have counts) and 'count' is found in the answer.
A single letter 'y' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for county that I've seen before include "Territorial division" , "Down for one" , "Administrative district within a state" , "Unit into which country is divided for local government" , "Local government district" .)