Play with striking ladies’ clothes of lovely half-silk layers (10)
I believe the answer is:
lysistrata
'play with striking ladies'' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.
'clothes of lovely half-silk layers' is the wordplay.
'clothes of' means to remove the middle letters.
'half' means to take half the letters.
'layers' becomes 'strata' (stratum is a kind of layer).
'lovely' with its middle taken out is 'ly'.
'silk' with half the letters taken is 'si'.
'ly'+'si'+'strata'='LYSISTRATA'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for lysistrata that I've seen is " woman that refused sex".)
