In a dedicated way, exploit heartless woman about detailed franchise? (9)
I believe the answer is:
devotedly
'in a dedicated way' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'exploit heartless woman about detailed franchise?' is the wordplay.
'exploit' becomes 'deed' (synonyms).
'heartless woman' becomes 'ly' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'detailed' means to remove the last letter (the word must be end-less or 'de-tailed').
'franchise?' becomes 'vote' (synonyms).
'deed'+'ly'='deedly'
'vote' with its final letter taken away is 'vot'.
'deedly' going around 'vot' is 'DEVOTEDLY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for devotedly that I've seen is " Loyally".)