Old lady on airline to India — where exactly? (6)
I believe the answer is:
mumbai
'exactly?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.
'old lady on airline to india' is the wordplay.
'old lady' becomes 'mum' (old lady can informally mean someone's mother).
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'airline' becomes 'BA' (British Airways).
'to india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'mum'+'ba'+'i'='MUMBAI'
'where' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mumbai that I've seen before include "place in India" , "City once called Bombay" , "School bag" , "Indian city formerly known as 4" , "Formerly Bombay" .)