Yank grabbing Conservative fellow’s mistress? (7)
I believe the answer is:
teacher
'mistress?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'yank grabbing conservative fellow's' is the wordplay.
'yank' becomes 'tear'.
'grabbing' is an insertion indicator.
'conservative' becomes 'c' (abbreviation commonly used in UK politics).
'fellow' becomes 'he' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'c'+'he'='che'
'tear' placed around 'che' is 'TEACHER'.
(Other definitions for teacher that I've seen before include "Mentor" , "Chips, perhaps?" , "The race (anag.)" , "Member of school staff" , "Lecturer" .)