Irregular mostly struggling to capture land’s leader? (9)
I believe the answer is:
guerrilla
'irregular mostly struggling to capture land's leader?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'irregular mostly struggling to capture land's leader?' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter.
'struggling' indicates anagramming the letters.
'to capture' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'leader?' says to take the initial letters (I've seen 'leaders of' mean this).
The first letter of 'lands' is 'l'.
'irregular' with its last letter taken away is 'irregula'.
'irregula' anagrammed gives 'guerrila'.
'guerrila' going around 'l' is 'GUERRILLA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for guerrilla that I've seen before include "Underground fighter" , "Combatant" , "Member of an irregular armed force" , "Resistance fighter" , "Partisan" .)