Worthy sweetheart after shortly embracing yours truly (7)
I believe the answer is:
someone
'worthy' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'sweetheart after shortly embracing yours truly' is the wordplay.
'sweetheart' becomes 'e' (the heart/centre of 'sweet').
'after' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'shortly' becomes 'soon' (synonyms).
'embracing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'yours truly' becomes 'me'.
'soon' going around 'me' is 'someon'.
'e' put after 'someon' is 'SOMEONE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for someone that I've seen before include "Celebrity" , "A person (maybe of importance)" , "Unspecified person" , "An unknown person" , "Unspecified human being" .)