Give reasons for experimental network covering Italy (7)
I believe the answer is:
explain
'give reasons' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'experimental network covering italy' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'italy' could be 'i' and 'i' is located in the answer.
'network' could be 'lan' (Local Area Network) and 'lan' is found within the remaining letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for explain that I've seen before include "Spell out" , "Show the meaning of, make clear" , "Interpret" , "Make understandable" , "Defend" .)