Rather neat hose wrapped round middle of conical hydrant (8)
I believe the answer is:
tightish
'rather neat' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.
'hose wrapped round middle of conical hydrant' is the wordplay.
'hose' becomes 'tights' (synonyms).
'wrapped round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'middle of' means to look at the middle letters.
'hydrant' becomes 'h' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
The middle of 'conical' is 'i'.
'tights' going around 'i' is 'tightis'.
'tightis'+'h'='TIGHTISH'
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