Meet politician and clerical assistant briefly (8)
I believe the answer is:
converge
'meet' is the definition.
(converging is a kind of meeting)
'politician and clerical assistant briefly' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'politician' could be 'con' and 'con' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'verge' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for converge that I've seen before include "Come together" , "fuse" , "Come towards the same point like Congreve" , "Move toward the same point" , "tend to get together" .)