Great friend embracing man and women only? (10)
I believe the answer is:
phenomenal
'great' is the definition.
'friend embracing man and women only?' is the wordplay.
'friend' becomes 'pal' (pal is a kind of friend).
'embracing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'man' becomes 'he'.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'women only?' becomes 'nomen' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'he'+'nomen'='henomen'
'pal' enclosing 'henomen' is 'PHENOMENAL'.
(Other definitions for phenomenal that I've seen before include "Remarkable" , "Stunning" , "Mind-blowing" , "Amazing" , "Incredible" .)