Sport, mostly pleasant, involving curious old characters? (5)
I believe the answer is:
runic
'involving curious old characters?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'sport mostly pleasant' is the wordplay.
'sport' becomes 'RU' (rugby union).
'mostly' means to remove the last letter.
'pleasant' becomes 'nice' (similar in meaning).
'nice' with its final letter taken off is 'nic'.
'ru'+'nic'='RUNIC'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for runic that I've seen before include "Pertaining to an ancient Germanic alphabet" , "mysterious symbols" , "Like some old characters" , "Inscribed with ancient symbols" , "of collection of old letters" .)