Friend overlooks river in Spain with piece of angling equipment - the type that comes with strings attached (10)
I believe the answer is:
marionette
'equipment the type that comes with strings attached' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'friend overlooks river in spain with piece of angling' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'river' could be 'rio' ('river' in Spanish) and 'rio' is located in the answer.
'spain' could be 'e' (abbreviation for Espana) and 'e' is found within the answer.
'piece' could be 'man' ('man' can be a synonym of 'piece') and 'man' is located in the leftover letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for marionette that I've seen before include "being manipulated by others" , "One has strings pulled" , "Puppet on strings" , "Pinocchio say" , "String puppet" .)