Put away papers without island society being ready to split (7)
I believe the answer is:
fissile
'split' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'put away papers without island society being ready' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'island' could be 'is' (abbreviation) and 'is' is found in the answer.
'society' could be 's' (common abbreviation in names of organisations) and 's' is found in the answer.
'papers' could be 'file' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'file' is present in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for fissile that I've seen before include "Tending to split, perhaps atom?" , "Like some uranium" , "(Of rocks) easily split" .)