Inscrutable individual with oddly magnetic cloak (9)
I believe the answer is:
enigmatic
'inscrutable' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'individual with oddly magnetic cloak' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'individual' could be 'i' (Roman numeral for one) and 'i' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'magnetic' is 'engmatic' which is within the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for enigmatic that I've seen before include "not obvious" , "Mysterious or puzzling, like Mona Lisa's smile" , "with a mystery ingredient" , "with mysterious substance" , "Ambiguous or puzzling" .)