Woman in 1A characters inside club had to appraise (8)
I believe the answer is:
evaluate
'to appraise' is the definition.
('evaluate' can be a synonym of 'appraise')
'woman in 1a characters inside club had' is the wordplay.
'woman in' becomes 'ev' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ea' becomes 'a'.
'characters inside' means to look at the middle letters.
'had' becomes 'ate' (e.g. I had an ice cream).
The middle of 'club' is 'lu'.
'ev'+'a'+'lu'+'ate'='EVALUATE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for evaluate that I've seen before include "Reckon worth of" , "'Assess, appraise (8)'" , "Make an assessment of, measure" , "Judge the worth of something" , "Make an assessment of, determine worth" .)