Militant leader: "I'd swerve back towards the centre" (6)
I believe the answer is:
midway
'towards the centre' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'militant leader i'd swerve back' is the wordplay.
'leader' indicates taking the first letters.
'swerve' becomes 'yaw' (yawing is a kind of swerving).
'back' says the letters should be written backwards.
The initial letter of 'militant' is 'm'.
'yaw' in reverse letter order is 'way'.
'm'+'id'+'way'='MIDWAY'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for midway that I've seen before include "Equally distant from the extremes" , "Central point" , "With as far to go as already travelled" , "1942 naval battle in the Pacific - towards the centre" , "At the fifty per cent point" .)