Man giving up power in Darjeeling? (3)
I believe the answer is:
cha
'darjeeling?' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'man giving up power in' is the wordplay.
'man giving' becomes 'h' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'up' says the letters should be written backwards (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'power' becomes 'AC' (AC is an example).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ac' reversed gives 'ca'.
'h' inserted into 'ca' is 'CHA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cha that I've seen before include "Rosie Lee (slang)" , "Tea (colloq.)" , "drink" , "Tea (colloquial)" , "Indian tea" .)