Playing with an attractive woman meant sound variety (10)
I believe the answer is:
assortment
'variety' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'playing with an attractive woman' is the wordplay.
'playing' becomes 'as' (I've seen this in other clues).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'an attractive woman' becomes 'sortment' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'as'+'sortment'='ASSORTMENT'
'meant sound' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for assortment that I've seen before include "Miscellaneous collection" , "Variety" , "Medley" , "Mixture" , "salmagundi" .)