Mike cuts Roman flower in wood (6)
I believe the answer is:
timber
'wood' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'mike cuts roman flower' is the wordplay.
'mike' becomes 'm' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'cuts' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters cut their way into other letters).
'roman flower' becomes 'tiber' (I've seen this before. I am not sure about the 'roman' bit.**).
'm' put within 'tiber' is 'TIMBER'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for timber that I've seen before include "22 [BEAM]" , "Wood that's been cut and prepared" , "board" , "Watch out for falling tree!" , "Mind the falling tree!" .)