Superintend but miss something? (8)
I believe the answer is:
overlook
'superintend' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
I cannot understand how the rest of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for overlook that I've seen before include "Fail to observe or decide to ignore" , "Give a view from above - miss" , "Disregard" , "Ignore or fail to see" , "Ignore a fault or have a view from above" .)