Pose as a sportsman (6)
I believe the answer is:
stance
'pose' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'a sportsman' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'as' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for stance that I've seen before include "policy" , "Position, at the tee perhaps" , "position when batting" , "Position of the body or an attitude" , "Attitude or way of standing" .)