Responses from Cornish tea, brewed but not hot (9)
I believe the answer is:
reactions
'responses' is the definition.
(I know this)
'cornish tea brewed but not hot' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'tea' could be 't' (I've seen this in other clues) and 't' is located in the answer.
'not' could be 'o' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'o' is found within the answer.
'hot' could be 'in' (both can mean fashionable) and 'in' is found in the remaining letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'from' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for reactions that I've seen before include "Newton's law of motion says all actions have them" , "Mental or physical responses" , "Responses, chemical perhaps" , "What you may get with chemicals" , "Takes" .)