Nervous speller joins tourney’s outsiders? (7)
I believe the answer is:
twitchy
'nervous' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'speller joins tourney's outsiders?' is the wordplay.
'speller' becomes 'witch' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'joins' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'outsiders?' means to remove the middle letters (only the letters on the outside of the word remain).
'tourney' with its middle taken out is 'ty'.
'witch' inserted inside 'ty' is 'TWITCHY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for twitchy that I've seen before include "in a stew" , "Jerky" , "Showing signs of nervousness" , "Agitated" , "Nervous" .)