Vocal strain for female singer? (10)
I believe the answer is:
songstress
'female singer?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'vocal strain' is the wordplay.
'vocal' becomes 'song' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'strain' becomes 'stress' (stress is a kind of strain).
'song'+'stress'='SONGSTRESS'
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for songstress that I've seen before include "Soprano perhaps" , "Woman making up the numbers" , "performer" , "coloratura perhaps" , "Female singer" .)