Ridiculous accommodating British territory in distant California (8)
I believe the answer is:
farcical
'ridiculous' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'accommodating british territory in distant california' is the wordplay.
'accommodating british territory' becomes 'ic' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'distant' becomes 'far' (synonyms).
'california' becomes 'cal' (short for California).
'far'+'cal'='farcal'
'ic' inserted into 'farcal' is 'FARCICAL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for farcical that I've seen before include "Utterly ridiculous like bad comedy" , "Absurd, quite ridiculous" , "Really ridiculous as in low-brow comedy" , "Quite ridiculous, perhaps in play" , "Ridiculous as in broad comedy" .)