Interesting in various ways to a Yankee (5)
I believe the answer is:
newsy
'interesting' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'in various ways to a yankee' is the wordplay.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'various ways' becomes 'nws' (compass directions).
'to a' becomes 'e' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'yankee' becomes 'y' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'nws' enclosing 'e' is 'news'.
'news'+'y'='NEWSY'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for newsy that I've seen before include "Gossip-laden" , "Full of intelligence" , "Gossipy" , "like gossip column?" , "Full of gossip" .)