Strong man appears to get it anyhow (5)
I believe the answer is:
titan
'strong man' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'appears to get it anyhow' is the wordplay.
'appears' becomes 'tan' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to get' says to put letters next to each other.
'anyhow' is an anagram indicator.
'it' anagrammed gives 'ti'.
'tan' put after 'ti' is 'TITAN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for titan that I've seen before include "Giant -- rocket" , "very big" , "Taint (anag.)" , "Taint in old Greek god" , "Saturn's moon" .)