Youth embracing dishy girl is duly identified (8)
I believe the answer is:
labelled
'duly identified' is the definition.
'labelled' can be an answer for 'identified' (I've seen this before). I am not sure about the 'duly' bit.
'youth embracing dishy girl' is the wordplay.
'youth' becomes 'lad' (lad means a young man).
'embracing' indicates putting letters inside.
'dishy girl' becomes 'belle' (I am not sure about the 'dishy' bit.).
'lad' going around 'belle' is 'LABELLED'.
'is' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for labelled that I've seen before include "Categorised; tagged" , "Identified" , "Assigned a category" , "Marked with a tag" , "Described" .)