Orange intelligence group after Virginia Deighton? (8)
I believe the answer is:
valencia
'orange' is the definition.
(Valencia orange is an example)
'intelligence group after virginia deighton?' is the wordplay.
'intelligence group' becomes 'cia' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'virginia' becomes 'va' (US state abbreviation).
'deighton?' becomes 'len' (I've seen this in another clue).
'va'+'len'='valen'
'cia' after 'valen' is 'VALENCIA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for valencia that I've seen before include "port in the Med" , "Region and major port of eastern Spain" , "Spanish port" , "Spanish city and region" , "European city" .)