What embarassment is making girl hide? (8)
I believe the answer is:
misspelt
'what embarassment is' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'girl hide?' is the wordplay.
'girl' becomes 'miss' ('miss' can be a synonym of 'girl').
'hide?' becomes 'pelt' ('pelt' can be a synonym of 'hide'**).
'miss'+'pelt'='MISSPELT'
'making' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for misspelt that I've seen before include "A character out, perhaps" , "put down in error" , "Put letters down quite wrongly" , "badly written" , "character flaw" .)