Spread out, running laps around green (7)
I believe the answer is:
asprawl
'spread' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'running laps around green' is the wordplay.
'running' is an anagram indicator (the letters run around to different places).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'green' becomes 'raw' (both can mean naive or inexperienced).
'laps' with letters rearranged gives 'aspl'.
'aspl' placed around 'raw' is 'ASPRAWL'.
'out' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for asprawl that I've seen is " Sitting untidily".)