Is she up from the village out West? (3)
I believe the answer is:
gal
'out west?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.
'is she up from the village' is the wordplay.
'is she' becomes 'ag'.
'up' says the letters should be written in reverse (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'from' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the village' becomes 'l' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ag' back-to-front is 'ga'.
'ga'+'l'='GAL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for gal that I've seen before include "female noted in Kalamazoo" , "miss" , "US female" , "An American girl, cowboy vintage" , "Broad" .)