Name a novice in a wildly hairy situation (6)
I believe the answer is:
hilary
'name a novice' is the definition.
'Hilary' can be an answer for 'name'. I am not sure about the 'a novice' bit.
'in a wildly hairy situation' is the wordplay.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a wildly' indicates an anagram.
'situation' becomes 'l' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hairy' with letters rearranged gives 'hiary'.
'hiary' placed around 'l' is 'HILARY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hilary that I've seen before include "The Spring legal term" , "girl or boy" , "University term" , "Term < for a girl" , "Boy's or girl's name" .)