Plead with captain in New York for pressing need (7)
I believe the answer is:
urgency
'pressing need' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'plead with captain in new york' is the wordplay.
'plead' becomes 'urge' (I've seen this before).
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'captain in' becomes 'c' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'new york' becomes 'ny'.
'c' placed inside 'ny' is 'ncy'.
'urge'+'ncy'='URGENCY'
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for urgency that I've seen before include "Exigency, pressing importance" , "Imperativeness" , "Pressing importance requiring speedy action" , "State of needing immediate action" , "Need for immediate action" .)