Smitten with cycling star -- our editor! (9)
I believe the answer is:
enamoured
'smitten' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'cycling star our editor' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'editor' could be 'ed' and 'ed' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'enamour' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'with' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for enamoured that I've seen before include "Bewitched" , "Charmed" , "Our mean Ed (anag.)" , "Besotted" , "Smitten" .)