Orator's opening mass meeting – thus? (6)
I believe the answer is:
orally
'thus?' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adverbs. Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'orator's opening mass meeting' is the wordplay.
'opening' indicates taking the first letters.
'mass meeting' becomes 'rally' (synonyms).
The initial letter of 'orators' is 'o'.
'o'+'rally'='ORALLY'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for orally that I've seen before include "via the trap" , "By (word of) mouth" , "How one speaks" , "given drugs thus?" , "How anyone would speak" .)