Remains of a female's fire? (5)
I believe the answer is:
'remains' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'a female's fire?' is the wordplay.
'female's fire?' becomes 'shes' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a'+'shes'='ASHES'
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ashes that I've seen before include "Test cricket series" , "Remnants of a fire" , "Powders remaining after fire" , "Cricket honour in the fire" , "sports contest" .)