Politician in New York initially hugging a beautiful maiden (5)
I believe the answer is:
nymph
'a beautiful maiden' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'politician in new york initially hugging' is the wordplay.
'politician' becomes 'MP' (Member of Parliament).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'new york' becomes 'ny'.
'initially' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'hugging' is 'h'.
'ny'+'h'='nyh'
'mp' put inside 'nyh' is 'NYMPH'.
(Other definitions for nymph that I've seen before include "Dragonfly larva" , "Young girl - insect" , "Goddess - larval form" , "Female spirit; immature form of dragonfly" , "Mythological spirit - larva" .)