Graeme Logan with sailors beginning to take control? (10)
I believe the answer is:
government
'control?' is the definition.
(government is a kind of control)
'graeme logan with sailors beginning to' is the wordplay.
'graeme logan' becomes 'govern' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'sailors' becomes 'men'.
'beginning' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'to' is 't'.
'govern'+'men'+'t'='GOVERNMENT'
'take' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for government that I've seen before include "Body of rulers" , "Ventnor gem (anag.)" , "A country's rulers" .)