Young lady wanting head, veiled in part (6)
I believe the answer is:
salome
'part' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'young lady wanting head veiled' is the wordplay.
'young lady' becomes 'isa'.
'wanting head' means to remove the first letter.
'veiled' becomes 'lome' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'isa' with its first letter taken away is 'sa'.
'sa'+'lome'='SALOME'
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for salome that I've seen before include "Her dancing pleased Herod" , "She danced famously for Herod" , "Seven veils dancer" , "Her dancing got her the head of John the Baptist" , "Biblical dancer" .)