Girl meets a fellow, starts talking - but doesn't yield (7)
I believe the answer is:
adamant
'doesn't yield' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'girl meets a fellow starts talking' is the wordplay.
'girl meets' becomes 'ada' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'a fellow' becomes 'man' (fellow can mean a man).
'starts' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'talking' is 't'.
'ada'+'man'+'t'='ADAMANT'
'but' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for adamant that I've seen before include "Completely determined" , "Firm and unyielding" , "Inflexible: fabulously hard rock" , "Data man can be quite unyielding" , "Insistent, inflexible" .)