Is little Leslie seen in the Hebrides, for example? (5)
I believe the answer is:
isles
'in the hebrides for example?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'is little leslie seen' is the wordplay.
'little' means to remove the last letter (the word is not quite complete).
'leslie' becomes 'les' (short for Leslie).
'seen' becomes 's' (this could be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'les' with its final letter taken off is 'le'.
'is'+'le'+'s'='ISLES'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for isles that I've seen before include "Archipelago" , "The road to these is a wellknown Scottish song" , "Hebrides, for example" , "eg The Hebrides" , "- - of Scilly" .)