Trustworthy journalist in bed with the French (8)
I believe the answer is:
credible
'trustworthy' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'journalist in bed with the french' is the wordplay.
'journalist' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bed with' becomes 'crib' (I've seen this before. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.**).
'the french' becomes 'le'.
'ed' placed into 'crib' is 'credib'.
'credib'+'le'='CREDIBLE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for credible that I've seen before include "easy to swallow" , "Believable - reliable" , "Plausible" , "Convincing" , "Capable of being believed" .)