Supporting endangered, needy seamen and tourists at the beginning, one working for great success (9)
I believe the answer is:
sensation
'great success' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'supporting endangered needy seamen and tourists at the beginning one working' is the wordplay.
'supporting endangered needy seamen' becomes 'sens' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'at the beginning' says to take the initial letters.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'working' becomes 'on' (on can mean working or activated).
The first letters of 'and tourists' is 'at'.
'sens'+'at'+'i'+'on'='SENSATION'
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sensation that I've seen before include "Crowd puller" , "Feeling produced by stimulation, or dramatic news (9)" , "Scandal" , "Feeling, awareness of stimulation" , "Physical feeling or perception" .)