Naive heel in charge following fool in the White House? (10)
I believe the answer is:
simplistic
'naive' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'heel in charge following fool in the white house?' is the wordplay.
'heel' becomes 'list' (both can mean to tilt).
'in charge' becomes 'ic' (abbreviation for 'in charge').
'following' says to put letters next to each other.
'fool in the white house?' becomes 'simp' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'list'+'ic'='listic'
'listic' put after 'simp' is 'SIMPLISTIC'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for simplistic that I've seen before include "Ignoring real complexity" , "Naive; ignoring complexities" , "Not recognising true complexity" .)