Insinuates that man's a saint, supporting wife (8)
I believe the answer is:
whispers
'insinuates' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'man's a saint supporting wife' is the wordplay.
'man' becomes 'his' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'a' becomes 'per' (eg 'one a day' means 'one per day').
'saint' becomes 's'.
'supporting' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'wife' becomes 'w' (abbreviation).
'his'+'per'+'s'='hispers'
'hispers' after 'w' is 'WHISPERS'.
'that' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for whispers that I've seen before include "Speaks soft and low" , "misconstrued by Chinese?" , "unvoiced words" , "Speaks very quietly" , "Breaths words rather than voices them" .)