Poles embracing orphan, those who look after kids (7)
I believe the answer is:
nannies
'those who look after kids' is the definition.
The definition suggests an adverb but the answer is not.
'poles embracing orphan' is the wordplay.
'poles' becomes 'NS' (North and South poles).
'embracing' indicates putting letters inside.
'orphan' becomes 'annie' (I've seen this before).
'ns' going around 'annie' is 'NANNIES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for nannies that I've seen before include "Children's nurses" , "female servants?" , "nursemaids" , "Childminders" , "Child minders" .)