Singing contest featuring girl with wooden sound (7)
I believe the answer is:
karaoke
'singing' is the definition.
(I know that karaoke is a type of singing)
'contest featuring girl with wooden sound' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'girl' could be 'kara' and 'kara' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'oke' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for karaoke that I've seen before include "Singing to recorded accompaniment" , "Entertainment in pubs where customers sing to backing track" , "Form of singing entertainment in pubs" , "Japanese bar entertainment" , "'Japanese entertainment, amateurs sing to recorded backing music (7)'" .)