Priest taken short during show? That's embarrassing (10)
I believe the answer is:
indelicate
'embarrassing' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'priest taken short during show?' is the wordplay.
'priest' becomes 'eli' (biblical figure).
'taken short' means to remove the last letter.
'during' indicates putting letters inside.
'show?' becomes 'indicate' (showing is a kind of indicating).
'eli' with its last letter taken off is 'el'.
'el' put into 'indicate' is 'INDELICATE'.
'that's' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for indelicate that I've seen before include "Rude - tasteless" , "Rather rude" , "lacking taste" , "Practised (a play)" , "Saucy" .)