Name nearly added to short film I like (9)
I believe the answer is:
identical
'like' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'name nearly added to short film i' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'name' could be 'den' and 'den' is found in the answer.
'film' could be 'it' and 'it' is located in the leftover letters.
'i' could be 'a' and 'a' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'icl' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for identical that I've seen before include "Impossible to tell apart" , "as B and B" , "not distinguished" , "Matching" , "Not any different" .)