International body discussed hosting Women's Open? (9)
I believe the answer is:
unwrapped
'open?' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, past participle verbs and adjectives sometimes define each other.
'international body discussed hosting women's' is the wordplay.
'international body' becomes 'UN' (short for United Nations).
'discussed' becomes 'rapped' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'hosting' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are welcomed in or hosted).
'women' becomes 'w' (standard abbreviation).
'un'+'rapped'='unrapped'
'unrapped' going around 'w' is 'UNWRAPPED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for unwrapped that I've seen is " Deprived of covering".)