High-flying American working party in credit (6)
I believe the answer is:
condor
'high-flying american' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how they can define each other.
'working party in credit' is the wordplay.
'working' becomes 'on' (e.g. a machine is working or on).
'party' becomes 'do' (do is a kind of party).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'credit' becomes 'cr' (abbreviation).
'on'+'do'='ondo'
'ondo' inserted inside 'cr' is 'CONDOR'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for condor that I've seen before include "Andean bird" , "Largest New World vulture" , "Large bird of prey" , "Large vulture of S America" , "South American vulture" .)