Oscar tucked into proper lard I cooked in a kind of soup (10)
I believe the answer is:
primordial
'kind of soup' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'oscar tucked into proper lard i cooked' is the wordplay.
'oscar' becomes 'O' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'tucked into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'proper' becomes 'prim' (prim and proper).
'cooked' indicates anagramming the letters (letters cooked into a new form).
'lard'+'i'='lardi'
'lardi' with letters rearranged gives '[lardi]'.
'prim'+'[lardi]'='prim[lardi]'
'o' put inside 'primrdial' is 'PRIMORDIAL'.
'in a' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for primordial that I've seen before include "From the beginning of time" , "Having existed from the very start - limp or arid (anag)" , "Existing from the start of time" , "Original" , "from the first" .)